OF WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTS. 
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The breccia extends down the slope of the hill on the seaward side, where it seems to 
impinge on a Eaised Beach, as in the following diagram, but the author s description 
of them is not very clear. 
Fig. 18 .—Generalized Section near Cagliari {J.P.)- 
MonreaJe Cagliari MtdelaPace. 
322' 
a 
a'. Breccia ; a", Ossiferous fissures; c. Raised Beach. 
The breccia on the slopes contains no bones, but land shells have been found in it. 
In the plain, to the west of Cagliari, the rubble attains a thickness of several metres 
and contains blocks derived from the neighbouring higher hills Inland, in a matrix of 
cemented red earth. 
On the whole, these Quaternary beds accord perfectly with those of Corsica, and 
also in their essential features with those we have noticed on the Mediterranean coast 
of France. The projection of the angular local debris to a considerable distance (over 
the flat land towards the shore) from the base of the hill slopes, is likewise a feature 
common with the Bubble-drift. 
Minorca and Majorca. —General De la Marmora describes similar recent marine 
beds skirting the coasts of those islands at heights of 30 to 100 feet, and M. Jules 
Haime* names some of the shells, but further details are wanting of the coast deposits 
in these islands ; they seem identical with those of Sardinia. 
Italy. —The phenomena on the coast of Italy are in close agreement with those on 
other parts of the Mediterranean shores, both with regard to the position of a low level 
beach and to the position, condition, and contents of the ossiferous fissures. General 
De la Marmora notes the occurrence of Lithodomus perforations on the rocks near 
Genoa at a height of 82 feet above sea level,t and of a consolidated Eaised Beach about 
25 feet above sea level in the neighbourhood of Leghorn.^ At Ischia, also, are well- 
known marine beds at different, and mostly, high levels. In one of them, the 
fact was noted, that it abounds with Foraminifera of a species which M. Ernest 
Van den Broeck found to indicate closer relations with the northern oceanic fauna 
than with that of the warmer Mediterranean. § 
There is also a concreted Eaised Beach containing recent shells at Capri, about 
30 feet above the sea-level. Other former higher sea levels are indicated by zones of 
rock with Lithodomus perforations. 
Osseous breccia is said to occur in several places near Verona, and Vicenza, and 
* ‘ Bull. Soc. Geol. de France,’ 2nd ser., vol. 12, p. 742. 
t ‘ La Sardaigne,’ yol. 2, p. 34.5. 
t In places it is quarried as a building stone, termed PancMna. 
§ A. W. Watees, ‘ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,’ vol. 34, p. 196. 
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