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IN the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu, Berlin (1905, p. 412) Prof. Dr. A. Phillipson, of Bern, outlines his recent journey of 10,000 kilometres through the west of Asia Minor, including Brussa, near the Sea of Marmora, and Makri, on its Mediterranean inlet in the south. The preliminary results indicate the existence of a “Lydian mass” of granite, gneiss, and crystalline schists, which forms on the whole a hummocky country, flattening itself out where the lower course of the Mæander cuts into it. The inhabitants are mostly clustered along the included basins of Neogene deposits. A zone of metamorphic limestones and less altered phyllites lies outside this mass, following the strike of the bow-shaped crystalline core; and the discovery of a new species of Fusulina (p. 417) places part of this outer zone as Permo-Carboniferous. To the south and south-east, the Cainozoic earth-movements have brought up folded limestones of the Cretaceous and Eocene type of Greece and Rhodes. The complete results of the journey will not be worked out for several years.
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C., G. Geological Notes . Nature 73, 546–548 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073546a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/073546a0