Art. XVII. — TJie Older Tertiaries of Maude ^ zuith an 

 Indication of the Sequence of the Eocene Rocks of 

 Victoria. 



By T. Sergeant Hall, 31. A. (Assistant Lecturer and Demon- 

 strator in Biology in Melbourne University), 



and 



G. B. PkITCHAHD (Lecturer in Geology, Workingmon's College, 



Melbourne) . 



[Eead 13th September, 189-i]. 



The sections of the tertiary rocks displayed in the valley of the 

 Moorabool River, near Maude and to the northward, were early 

 recognised as throwing considerable light on the correlation of 

 beds which are separately better developed elsewhere. In 1866 

 Sir Alfred R. C. Selwyn reported to Parliament* on the age of 

 tlie Victorian gold drifts, and the report was, in the following 

 year, reprinted by him with reduced copies of the sections therein 

 contained in the Exhibition Essays, t 



On the evidence there detailed, the older volcanic rocks, the 

 plant beds underlying them and certain non-auriferous gravels 

 occurring in the neighbourhood of Maude, and elsewhere in the 

 colony, were referred to the miocene of the survey, that is to our 

 eocene. Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, assisted by j\Ir. R. A. F. JNIurray, 

 made a minute geological survey of a part of the district, and the 

 quarter-sheet (19 S.W.) which includes the most important part 

 of the area, was published in 1865. Unfortunately the sheet of 

 sections and explanatory notes, which should liave accompanied 

 the map, has never appeared. The results of our observations on 

 the eocene bed at Curlewisj, rendered it advisable that an early 

 visit should be paid to the Claude district, and a i-ecent vacation 

 has afforded us the desired opportunity. 



"Votes and Proieedings of the Legislative Assembly of Victori.a, 2iid Session, 18G6, vol. 

 t Exliibition Essays, 1866-67, pp. 21-26. 

 X Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, 1893, p. 18. 



