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HAMILTON AND STRICKLAND ON PART OF CEPHALONIA. 107
sist. The lowest portion is composed of fine-grained white lime-
stones, which, from their resemblance to the rocks of Malta, are
probably referable to the Miocene age. Unfortunately our time
was too short to examine this part of the series thoroughly, but it is
possible that a transition may here be traced from the Miocene to
the Pliocene series.
The accompanying section will show, in descending order, the
superposition of these beds. It was made about two miles to the
north of Lixouri, where a road descends from the quarries of Schoeno
to the sea.
Village of Section about two miles N. of Lixouri.
Schceno or Quarries.
Vlicata. 17
16 15 14 13
No. I. Very hard thin-bedded limestone of a reddish brown co-
lour, containing casts of recent species of shells, chiefly Turritella
and Pecten of small size. This bed dips at an angle of 50° towards
the east, and at some points rises to a considerable height, with a
steep westerly escarpment. The thickness of the bed is from ten to
twenty feet. About three-quarters of a mile north of Lixouri it
consists of a hard conglomerate, with small pebbles of flint and
quartz in a hard calcareous matrix.
2. Dirty yellow sand, containing in the upper part many irregular
concretionary nodules of limestone, containing Pecten^ Ostrea and
Anomia. The calcareous concretions gradually diminish down-
wards, and the lower portion consists of fine sand full of shells, prin-
cipally Pecten^ Cerithium, Dentalium, Isocardia cor, Turritella,
Venus, &c. The thickness of this bed may be about 100 feet. It is
best seen in a small hill south of the road from the quarries to the sea.
3. Blue marly clay, which in most places immediately underlies
the sands of the last stratum, but in some places a band of hard cal-
careous marl, consisting almost enflrely of shells, from three to five
feet thick, is interposed between the two. These shells appear to
belong almost entirely to the same species as occur in the blue clay
below. The latter deposit is about 200 feet thick, and contains a
great variety of shells, of the genera Dentalium, Fusus, Rostellaria,
Buccinum, Murex, Turritella, Cerithium, Cardium, Cardita, Venus,
&c. In a lower division of this blue clay Turritellae are most abun-
dant, scarcely any other shell being found with them, and in an upper
portion of the same bed a small oblong species of sponge is very
plentiful.
All the above beds are exposed to the eastward of the road which
leads from Lixouri to the quarries of Schceno ; the following are to