OSSIFEEOUS CAVES OF SICILY. 



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Fig. 6. 



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VERTICAL SECTION OF THE GHOTTA DI MACCAGNONE. 



a. Bone-breccia, with blocks of limestone. 



b. Grey cancellar deposit. 



c. Yellow oehreous bed, or ' cave-earth,' with blocks. 



d. Humatile layer, with blocks of limestone. 



e. Stalagmite coating the ceiling of the cave. 

 /. Eoof-breccia cemented to the ceiling. 



g. Eoof-breccia in the back of the cavern, coated with stalagmite, 

 h. Hippurite limestone. 

 w. Wall of the entrance. 



Fig. 7. 





GROUND-PLAN OF THE GROTTA Dl MACCAGNONE. 

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