12 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



The Nummulitiferous Eocene strata along the coast and in the 

 interior of Asia Miaor are remarkable for their great extent. Their 

 marls, slates, and limestones range from the Gulf of Ismid to beyond 

 Dudsche, and then occupy the southern and eastern slopes of the 

 coast-mountains, and the south shoaly coast of the Black Sea from 

 Eregli to beyond Samsun. These strata are nearly everywhere 

 associated with genuine Macigno Sandstones, externally quite ana- 

 logous to certain subdivisions of the Yienna Sandstone. The eastern 

 coast of Asia Minor, between Samsun and Trebizonde, is almost 

 wholly composed of trachytes ; only on a few points (as near TJnje) 

 oolitic (probably Cretaceous) sandstones, and Eocene strata near 

 Samsun, are of some importance. 



The younger Tertiaries, runmng along the south coast of the Gulf 

 of Corinth, and spreading inland to a height of several thousand 

 feet, are solid calcareous conglomerates, overlaid by sandstones, 

 marls, and sands, on which are several distinct terraces of horizontal 

 diluvial beds. These Tertiaries rest on limestones of older data, 

 and have been affected by the upheavals which the limestones have 

 suffered, sloping steeply to the north. The deposits of fossil fuel 

 here are too insignificant for profitable working. 



A kind of Salfatara exists eastward of Kalamaki, where sulphur 

 is deposited in crystals in the crevices and cavities, or in the inter- 

 stices of the Tertiary gravel, yielding 20 to 50 per cent, of this sub- 

 stance. At present want of fuel is an obstacle to the exploitation 

 of this mineral. [Count M.] 



On the KAiLEOAD-SECTioif from Nteksa. to Linz. By M. H. Wolf. 



[Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, July, 1858.] 



The cutting at Neulengbach (48 feet deep and 2400 feet long) 

 shows marls with beds of sandstone (dipping 5°-10° at the west 

 end, 30° at the east end, and 60°-70° in the middle), and above 

 them variegated marl- slate, sands, and marls, with septaria of very 

 diversified forms, some weighing several cwt., consisting of cal- 

 careous dark- coloured marl, symmetrically intersected with little 

 veins of calc-spar. In some of them were found numerous speci- 

 mens of Pecten, in another a Terehratula ; at all events, it may be 

 assumed that they are not post-eocene. The section between Sier- 

 ning and Eehr exposes superficial loess, and a bed of freshwater 

 limestone about 10 feet thick, with 3 inches of menilite-slate con- 

 taining fish-scales. Nearer to Melk a bed of two or three species of 

 Ostrea, pronounced by Prof. Suess to be Oligocene, was discovered. 

 Further westward the road is cut through gneiss, granulite, and 

 granite. 



The analogy of the plastic clay (" SchHer") near Linz with the 

 horizontal beds of " TegeP' in the Yienna basin is not distinct, on 

 account of their dipping at a rather high angle. Remains of a young 

 Elephas primigenius (an upper jaw with two teeth and the occiput) 

 were found in the loess near Mautern, and are now in the Museum of 

 the Imp. Geol. Institute. [Count M.] 



