PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. II. 1836—1837. No. 47. 



November 2, 1836. — The Society assembled this evening for the 

 Session. 



J. Talbot, Esq., of Evercreech House, Shepton Mallet, Somerset- 

 shire, was elected a Fellow of this Society. 



In conformity with Section VI. Article 8. of the By-laws, the 

 names of the following Fellows proposed by the Council to be re- 

 moved from the lists of the Society on account of arrears, were read 

 from the Chair for the first time : 



Lord Glenlyon, William Higgins, Esq. 



A paper was read, entitled "A general sketch of the Geology of 

 the western part of Asia Minor," by Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



This memoir embodies the observations made by the author during 

 a winter's residence at Smyrna, a tour into the valleys of the Meander 

 and Cayster, and a journey from Constantinople up the river Rhyn- 

 dacus into Phrygia, and thence down the valley of the Hermus to 

 Smyrna. In the latter excursion he was accompanied by Mr. Hamil- 

 ton, one of the Secretaries of this Society, to whom he acknowledges 

 himself indebted for a zealous cooperation. 



The country, thus visited, is thickly beset with mountains, some 

 of which are arranged in five parallel chains having, on a great scale, 

 nearly an east and west bearing, but the remainder are variously 

 grouped and without any particular direction. Four of these parallel 

 chains bound the valleys of the Hermus, the Cayster, and the Mean- 

 der ; and the fifth, commencing with Mount Ida, extends eastward 

 to the Mysian Olympus, and probably is continued in the Bithynian 

 Olympus. With respect to the theories which have been advanced 

 relative to the direction of a range being a mark of its comparative 

 antiquity, the author says that the whole of the mountains of this part 

 of Asia Minor, whether parallel or not, appear to have been elevated 

 at nearly the same geological epoch. 



The formations of which the country is composed, Mr. Strickland 

 arranges in the following chronological order, but he states that 

 further researches may require it to be modified : 1 . Granitic rocks ; 

 2. Schistose and metamorphic rocks ; 3. Greenstone ; 4. Silurian 

 rocks; ^. Hippurite limestone 3 6. Tertiary lacustrine limestone 5 



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