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HUDLESTON: GEOLOGY OF PALESTINE. 
Fig. 5. — Section aceoss the Valley of the Aenon 
(VV. Mojib) East of the Dead Sea. 
N.W. S.E. 
Jeb. Houra. W. Mojib, 330ft. Jeb. Schihan, 2,830ft. 
a, Limestones with flint weathering red; b, marls with Pholadomya ; c, grey, 
compact limestones ; d , alternations of yellow and red chalky marls with tabular 
limestones containing Am. Luynesi ; e, yellowish limestone with Ostrea Mermeti, 
var. minor , and 0. vesicularis, var. judaica ; f. grey marls with Hcmiaster 
Fourneli, 0. oiisiponensis, Plicatala, Pholadomya , Venus ; g, marly limestones 
with bivalves and gasteropods ; i, yellow limestones with Pterodontes and other 
gasteropods ; j, limestones with Ostrea Jlabellata , 0. africana , var., Holectypus 
Larteti , Heterodiadema lybicum, Pterodonta elongata ; k, green saline marl ; 
/, white sandstone ; m, red sandstone. 
the Cretaceous limestones. Three-fourths of this, comprising the 
beds, form a to j inclusive, represent the middle and lower chalks of 
Palestine, not necessarily corresponding with the middle and lower 
chalk of England, but about that horizon. There are beds of hard 
and soft alternations, containing a recognized and tolerably abundant 
fauna. 
In western Palestine these middle and lower beds are for the 
most part seen, as here, in the gorges, though sometimes perhaps 
brought to the surface of the plateau by synclinal folds. These are 
the beds which it has so often been the fashion to speak of as Neo- 
comian and Jurassic, but whose very lowest horizon contains a fauna 
which M. Lartet regards as Cenomanian. The gorge of the Wady 
Mojib also shows a tine section of the upper white chalk-with-flints, 
