1873.] scnindler — geology of kazirun, persia. 381 



Discussion. 



Prof. Rupert Jones remarked on the combination of organs found 

 in the older forms of vegetable and animal life which were now 

 found separate, and attached to different groups. 



3. Notes on the Geology of Kazirun, Persia. 

 By A. H. Schindler, Esq. 



(Communicated by Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S., V.P.G.S.) 



[Abstract.] 



In this paper, which accompanied a series of specimens presented to 

 the Museum of the Society, the author described the section pre- 

 sented by the hills in the neighbourhood of Kazirun. The general 

 surface was described as consisting of nearly unfossiliferous Post- 

 tertiary deposits, immediately beneath which is an unstratified 

 marine deposit containing a great abundance of fossils, among 

 which are species of Ostrea, Pecten, and Cidaris (?). Below this 

 deposit is a succession of strata, repeated several times in the hills ; 

 and at the bottom of the series in each case is a bed of gypsum. 

 The spaces between the recurrent series are filled up with con- 

 glomerates. Beneath the gypseous series is a formation of compact 

 limestone, which rises to a height of about 1500 feet both north and 

 south of the plain of Kazirun ; its beds dip 25° ; and their strike is 

 from N.E. to S.W. The author mentioned the occurrence, in a 

 gypsum quarry near Kazirun, of three long cylinders from 6 to 10 

 feet in diameter, composed of the same material as the surrounding 

 rock. He also stated that he had examined several caverns in the 

 neighbouring mountains, and also the great cave at Shahpoor, but 

 without discovering any organic remains. 



Discussion. 



Mr. Etheridge was inclined to regard the specimens exhibited as 

 probably of Miocene age. Some of the Pectens resembled those 

 from Malta ; and a Crinoid appeared also not to belong to an earlier 

 stage than the Miocene. 



Mr. Blanpord mentioned that at Shiraz the formation was num- 

 mulitic ; but along the shores of the Persian Gulf the beds appeared 

 to be of more recent age, containing some existing forms. He 

 thought that possibly the beds described at Kazirun belonged to 

 the gypseous series of Loftus. He did not recognize any of the 

 few fossils exhibited as belonging to the rocks on the shore of 

 the gulf. 



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