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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13205693635).jpg HAMILTON AND STRICKLAND ON PART OF CEPHALONIA 107 <br> sist The lowest portion is composed of fine-grained white lime- <br> stones which from their resemblance to the rocks of Malta are <br> probably referable to the Miocene age Unfortunately our time <br> was too short to examine this part of the series thoroughly but it is <br> possible that a transition may here be traced from the Miocene to <br> the Pliocene series <br> The accompanying section will show in descending order the <br> superposition of these beds It was made about two miles to the <br> north of Lixouri where a road descends from the quarries of Schoeno <br> to the sea <br> Village of Section about two miles N of Lixouri <br> Schceno or Quarries <br> Vlicata 17 <br> 16 15 14 13 <br> No I Very hard thin-bedded limestone of a reddish brown co- <br> lour containing casts of recent species of shells chiefly Turritella <br> and Pecten of small size This bed dips at an angle of 50° towards <br> the east and at some points rises to a considerable height with a <br> steep westerly escarpment The thickness of the bed is from ten to <br> twenty feet About three-quarters of a mile north of Lixouri it <br> consists of a hard conglomerate with small pebbles of flint and <br> quartz in a hard calcareous matrix <br> 2 Dirty yellow sand containing in the upper part many irregular <br> concretionary nodules of limestone containing Pecten Ostrea and <br> Anomia The calcareous concretions gradually diminish down- <br> wards and the lower portion consists of fine sand full of shells prin- <br> cipally Pecten Cerithium Dentalium Isocardia cor Turritella <br> Venus c The thickness of this bed may be about 100 feet It is <br> best seen in a small hill south of the road from the quarries to the sea <br> 3 Blue marly clay which in most places immediately underlies <br> the sands of the last stratum but in some places a band of hard cal- <br> careous marl consisting almost enflrely of shells from three to five <br> feet thick is interposed between the two These shells appear to <br> belong almost entirely to the same species as occur in the blue clay <br> below The latter deposit is about 200 feet thick and contains a <br> great variety of shells of the genera Dentalium Fusus Rostellaria <br> Buccinum Murex Turritella Cerithium Cardium Cardita Venus <br> c In a lower division of this blue clay Turritellae are most abun- <br> dant scarcely any other shell being found with them and in an upper <br> portion of the same bed a small oblong species of sponge is very <br> plentiful <br> All the above beds are exposed to the eastward of the road which <br> leads from Lixouri to the quarries of Schceno ; the following are to <br> the westward of the same road 36932836 113687 51125 Page 107 Text v 3 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36932836 1847 Geological Society of London NameFound Buccinum NameConfirmed Buccinum EOLID 10712522 NameBankID 2685510 NameFound Cardita NameConfirmed Cardita EOLID 57589 NameBankID 2693146 NameFound Cardium NameConfirmed Cardium EOLID 50301 NameBankID 2693257 NameFound Cephalonia NameConfirmed Cephalonia NameBankID 4106720 NameFound Cerithium NameConfirmed Cerithium EOLID 10714569 NameBankID 2684349 NameFound Dentalium NameConfirmed Dentalium EOLID 10722796 NameBankID 2694593 NameFound Fusus NameConfirmed Fusus EOLID 2988518 NameBankID 4173880 NameFound Isocardia NameConfirmed Isocardia EOLID 4759043 NameBankID 4207414 NameFound Murex NameConfirmed Murex EOLID 10713648 NameBankID 2685236 NameFound Ostrea NameConfirmed Ostrea EOLID 10719983 NameBankID 2692450 NameFound Pecten NameConfirmed Pecten EOLID 10719936 NameBankID 2692292 NameFound Rostellaria NameConfirmed Rostellaria EOLID 4873050 NameBankID 3940657 NameFound Turritella NameConfirmed Turritella EOLID 52187 NameBankID 2683895 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 3 1847 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36932836 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36932836 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-17 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13205693635 2015-08-26 12 50 15 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1847 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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