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■dyte. None of tliesr fmiiis linve been dt'scril)e«l. and tlierefore they 

 ai^ord no c-hie To tlic pi-ocise aire of these beds. In t}n« absence, 

 tlien'fnre. of nioic detailed palaeontolo^ncal work in this area, 

 nothinf; definite ean l)e said at j. resent respecting the age of these 

 sediments. 



On stratigraphical grounds, in the assumed absence of major 

 fauhing and inversion, the relative stiatigraphical position of the 

 beds near QueenstoAvn can be fairly well gauged from sections 

 afforded by two traverses, one along the creek road from Hurst's 

 Bridge to Queenstown. and the other along the road from Kangaroo 

 •Grounds through Christmas Hills to Yarra Glen. Considering in 

 • detail the first section, the beds near Hurst's Bridge show consider- 

 able lithological similarity to those at Diamond Creek, and, further, 

 the Templestowe anticline, which is so marked a feature of Diamond 

 Creek, is seen in a i-ailway (.utting immediately south of the 

 Hurst's Bridge railway station. Traversing eastwards from 

 Hurst's Bridge, the strata dip consistently east, at an average 

 .angle of about 450, uiitil about a mile and a quarter beyond Cottle's 

 Bridge. 1 where the BuUeen syncline crosses the road section. This 

 fold, at this point, is not the important feature that it is to the 

 south near Research and the Yarra River.- The strata near the 

 axis of the fold are much steeper than they are further south, and 

 soon give place to east-dipping beds with an anticline between. 

 This anticline is the northerly continuation of a fold, not named, 

 but shown on a map accompanying the author's report on the Dia- 

 mand Creek area.' Continuing east, the beds appear to dip east 

 until close to Queenstown township, where a westerly dip is pre- 

 sent. It is evident, from this section, that the strata near Queens- 

 .town are stratigraphically much superior to the beds of the Temple- 

 :stowe anticline near Hurst's Bridge. 



The Warrandyte anticline, devoid of its minor folds, crosses 

 Watson's Creek at a point near to where the creek changes from a 

 X.E.-S.W. course to one nearly east and Avest. The fold con- 

 tinues in a north-easterly direction to One Tree Hill, where the 

 structure is anticlinal, and the beds are lithologically similar to 

 those of Warrandyte. Sections along the road from Kangaroo 

 '(4ii)und to Yarra Glen show that the predominant dip is an easterly 



1 Vide, Parish plans of (;reensl>oroiij;li and l^ueenstow n for this and other local 

 ■r'mu: ill tliis paper. 



2 Vide, J. T. Jutson, "The Structure and General Geology of the Warrandyte Goldfield and 

 adjacent Country." Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. xxiii. (n.s.), pt. ii., p. 523, 1910. 



3 Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. wv. (n.s.), pt. ii., 1912 



