844 GEOLOGY OF GLASS HOUSE MTS. AND DLSTRICT, 



In 1888, the Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods, F.L.S., read a paper 

 before the Royal Society of New South AVales on the " Desert 

 Sandstone," With this paper he published plates illustrating 

 what he terms "Prismatic Basalt, Glass House Mountains," and 

 in the text he states that the "Glass House Mountains appear 

 to be of the same age as a basaltic flow at Lytton, a few miles 

 inland from Cleveland." In the same paper the author refers to 

 the conglomerates and sandstones in the Moreton District as 

 " Desert Sandstone "; and he remarks "that only a few fragments 

 of coniferous wood have been found imbedded in it, proving 

 nothing as regards age." 



In a descriptive account of the Glass House Mountains in the 

 'Queensland Rail wa)-^ and Tourists' Guide,' compiled under instruc- 

 tions from the Queenland Railway Commissioners, the author, 

 Mr. A. Meston, refers to the geology of the mountains, and 

 perpetuates the old notion that they are composed of sandstone, 

 and rise out of the Cretaceous formation. 



In Appendix ii. of Jack and Etheridge's ' Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology of Queensland,' we read :—" Recently Mr. Henry G. 

 Stokes has presented to the Geological Survey a series of speci- 

 mens gathered in the Mountains themselves (i.e., the Glass House 

 Mountains*), from which it appears that the staple rock is 

 trachyte." 



Mr. Stokes has since read a paper in which he further points 

 out the intrusive character of the trachytes, f 



Mr. E. C. Andrews, B. A., in a paper, " Preliminarj'^ Note on the 

 Geology of the Queensland Coast, &c.,"| speaks of the Glass 

 House Mountains as " monadnock-like " heights, which rise from 

 a coastal plain. Mr. Andrews also considers this coastal "/>/am " 

 or ^''jiaV to be due to the redistribution by tidal action of 

 fluviatile material. 



* The italics are mine. 



t Trans. Nat. Hist. Society of Queensland. Vol. i., 1892, 3-4. 



X Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1902. 





