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0/iver's Point. 



This is the first hi»h cliff south of Frankston. The section 

 shows — 



Ferruginous grits and sands passing up 



into white sands (Eocene) - - 45 feet. 



Decomposed basalt - - - - 10 „ 



Grits with overlying conglomerate - - 10 ,, 



Granite ^ - - - - - - 27 „ 



Total ------ 92 feet. 



The ferruginous grits have not as yet yielded fossils at this 

 locality. 



Landslip Point. (Fig. 1). 



The succession is the same as at Oliver's Point, and the 

 thickness of the beds is practically the same. An interesting 

 point about the section is the occcurrence of a band, a few inches 

 thick, full of casts of fossils at about 20 feet above the top of the 

 basalt, the occurrence of which was first detected by Mr. Kitson, 

 and which was referred by Mr. Dennant to Eocene age. 



The fossiliferous band is much softer than the thick-bedded, well- 

 jointed, hard ironstone grits which underlie it, and blocks of which 

 thickly strew the beach below. At the date of our last visit, in 

 December of last year, pieces of the fossiliferous rock were 

 common on the beach owing to a rockfall which took place during 

 the winter, but owing to their soft condition they will probably 

 soon be broken up by the hard shingle. The determination of 

 the Eocene age of the ferruginous grits which mantle the surface 

 of the district up to about 400 feet above the sea, is of consider- 

 able interest. Hitherto, in the absence of fossils, these beds 

 have generally been considered as to the same age as those 

 displayed in the Beaumaris cliffs.'- When, however, the fossils 

 of the two localities are compared, it will be seen that they 

 are entirely distinct, and that those from the grits of this 



1 See Hogg, E.G. (7). 



2 The Beaumaris beds have frequently been referred to by authors as at Brighton, 

 Cheltenham or Mordialloc. In each case the same short cliff section is meant, and the 

 small settlement which has of late years sprung up at the spot bears the name which we 

 use. 



