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There is not any later formation overlying the coal-formation, and 

 in many places the coal-deposits have been removed. The mines are 

 much disturbed by faults crossing in every direction, and the seams 

 are in general inclined at an angle of about 30°. 



The particulars of his first journey in Asia Minor in search of coal 

 are not referred to in the above abstract, but have been communicated 

 by the author since his return to England. 



On this occasion Mr. Poole travelled from Ghio to the Lake 

 Ascanias and thence by Bazarkoi to Ortokoi ; and in the ravine 

 between Ortokoi and Yenikoi he examined five seams of lignite, dipping 

 for the most part at a high angle to the N. From one of these 

 seams, 20 inches thick, a quantity had been obtained for a steamer 

 and found useless. The thickest and lowest seam, about 7 feet thick, 

 is full of small shells (Planorbis and LimncBus ?). Mr. Poole also 

 examined the Hassan Dere seam, in a ravine to the westward. This 

 much nearer approaches coal in its character, and has been worked 

 by the Armenians to some extent ; but the works were destroyed by 

 the late earthquakes (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xi. p. 543). At 

 Hassan Dere the Nummulitic Limestone, dipping to the south, occurs 

 within 200 yards of the coal, which dips to the N.W. ; but, from 

 the very much disturbed state of the stratification, the relations of 

 the several rocks are not apparent. 



2. On the Newer Tertiary Deposits of the Sussex Coast. 

 By R. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



(Abstract.) 

 [The publication of this Paper is deferred.] 



Prom Brighton, westwards, between the chalk-hills and the sea, the 

 surface of the country is formed, first, by a raised terrace of "red 

 gravels," lying on the sloping base of the chalk-hills, and on the old 

 tertiary deposits ; secondly, the gravels of the Chichester levels, or 

 the "white gravels." These latter are distinctly bedded and seamed 

 with sand, and are more water-worn than the red gravels which pass 

 under them ; thirdly, the white gravels are overlaid by " brick- 

 earth," which is somewhat variable m its characters. These, with 

 their equivalents, are the Glacial deposits of the district in question. 

 The coast-sections, though very limited in extent, exhibit several 

 important phsenomena illustrative of the history of these newer ter- 

 tiary accumulations. At Selsea, where the Glacial deposits are about 

 25 feet thick, the underlying Eocene clay is seen, at extreme low 

 water, to be perforated by a very large variety of Pholas crispatUy 

 and to be overlaid by a deposit containing Lutraria rugosa, Pullas- 

 tra aureay Tapes decussata, and Pecten polymorphuSj contempora- 

 neous with the Pholades. Elsewhere brown clays, or local ferru- 

 ginous gravels, cover unconformably the Eocene beds. The surface 



