GREEN SANDSTONES. 



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these beds uncoloured on the map, considering 

 them as probably forming part of the cretaceous 

 system. At Eski Hissar, near Almalee, are hills 

 of coarse green gravelly sandstone, which, though 

 bearing some resemblance to the beds just de- 

 scribed, are possibly of a different age. They 

 abound in nummulites, but these are not of the 

 same species with such as are found in the scaglia. 

 The grains of gravel, of which this coarse sand- 

 stone is made up, are limestone and serpentine. 

 The stratification is indistinct. Towards Almalee 

 the gravelly character of these beds disappears, 

 and they appear as white marl, chalky limestone, 

 or a soft green sandstone, in which we could 

 detect no fossils. 



Whatever may be the true age of the deposits 

 just mentioned, other strata occur, resting on 

 the scaglia, of undoubted tertiary date. These 

 are both marine and fresh-water, but the former 

 are comparatively scarce. They are not synchro- 

 nic, but successive in time of deposition ; the 

 marine being the more ancient. 



Marine tertiaries were met with at four 

 localities in Lycia: viz. at Saaret, near Anti- 

 phellus ; at Gendever, by the plain of Kassabar ; 

 at Armootlee, in the alpine plain of Almalee ; 



