Note 13 — Chapter XXIII · GEOGRAPHICAL
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For the geology of the Taurus between Diarbekr and Kharput an article by W. Warington Smyth in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1845, vol. i. pp. 330 seq., may be consulted. I do not understand his statement that the breadth of the main ridge of Taurus between Arghana and Kharput is nearly 50 miles. Loftus (op. cit. p. 344) has drawn a geological section from Bitlis through Sert to Jezireh-ibn-Omar. Like the Zagros, the range may be said to consist in the main of nummulitic limestone. ↑