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REOLOCJY MAITLAND-BKANXTON DISTRICT, 



Skirting- the southern end of these Carboniferous rocks are the 

 lowest beds of the Permo-Oarboniferous System that occur in the 

 Hunter River District, namely, the Lochinvar glacial beds. These 

 can be traced, almost continuously, from a point just west of the 

 village of Gosforth round to a point about half a mile south of the 

 II it liter River, on the road from Lochinvar to Windermere, a total 



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Vertical Section of 

 Farley -Or 



Sandy Shales « MudsTonts with very 

 numerous minne folsils 



Sandstone 

 Ravensfield Sandstone 



Mostly KaM colour, d Mudstor.es with thin beds 

 of limestone al A « B and a few erraHcs 

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.Oe.ntufficeouj «ndst on eofHarpe/s Hill 



'Hor.j.n .1 B«IC Rock. E »? L«l.in«r rUiWj, STaCo* 



(Coarse andeaifk conglomerate wilh abundant 



lEurydBSmiCorctjTa pamnd, inlo hyr-erslhene 



Landes.lt •> toffs of BUtrOuauid 



Chiefly Shaie*itAu<Jston»s - with patches of 

 Sandstone nearlhe Top - containing a 

 few Ganajmopfens leaves * numerous 

 marine fossils 



Rather ha^ chert, Mudstanes 

 Basalt 



Mudstores - rafhtr riard and cherly in part 

 wilh few erratics 



Natrolitt Basalt 



Mudstonesand Shales with occasional erratics 



Massive 5and«tone wilh planl remains 

 Chocolate Shales wiTti glacial erratic* 



S«<""S o» eruptive and Sedimentary rock* 

 witfc Rhacopterij ^tc 



Lower Marine Series in the 

 eta District. 



distance of about five miles. In places, they are distinctly uncon- 

 formable with the underlying- beds. In portions 5 and 6, Parish of 

 Gosforth, the Carboniferous rocks strike 225°, and dip to the 

 south-east at high angles (58°-64°); and the strike of the glacial 



