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The parts of the Lycian coast on which such 

 conglomerates are in process of formation are, 

 owing to the disturbing influences by which 

 those beds are produced, by no means prolific 

 in marine animals near the shore, though such 

 localities, when long undisturbed, are very favour- 

 able to their multiplication, owing to the shelter 

 and protection afforded by the broken frag- 

 ments of rock. In either case, however, few 

 organic remains are likely to be found in such 

 beds when upheaved, unless they be of mas- 

 sive corals, now very rare within the Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



In some places these conglomerates and 

 brecchias are forming at great depths. Near 

 Cape Angistro, the mountains impending over 

 the gulf are breaking up and crumbling away, 

 without the agency of running water, and their 

 fragments are falling in great quantities into 

 very deep water, even as deep as one hundred 

 fathoms, where, doubtless, they are now forming 

 masses of brecchia. Similar brecchias are form- 

 ing at some distance from the land, owing to the 

 gradual destruction of sub-marine pinnacles of 

 rock. There is a case of this kind at the entrance 

 of the north side of the gulph, near Cape Artemi- 



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