Geological Structure about Moniington. 37 



district show a close agreement with those of the grey clays of 

 Balcombe's Bay, and there is little but a lithological distinction 

 to separate them. 



South of Landslip Point. 



Mr. Kitson figures and describes a section running south along 

 the coast from Landslip Point, which displays some rather 

 puzzling features. The conclusion that we have arrived at is 

 that the beds owe their present position entirely to landslips. 

 At one time we were inclined to call in the agency of faulting to 

 explain the fact that the basalt and granitite abutted against 

 one another with a vertical wall, but recent examination shows 

 that there is between the two igneous rocks a seam of con- 

 glomex-ate in the upper part of the northern occurrence. This 

 conglomerate also overlies both granitite and basalt, and, as it is 

 the slate conglomerate, which in all the neighbouring sections 

 underlies the basalt, its anomolous position was commented upon 

 by Mr. Kitson, who suggested slipping as an explanation. We 

 are, however, inclined to go further than he does, and ascribe the 

 position of the basalt to the same cause. 



G rice's Creek. (Figs. 2 to 5.).^ 



At the mouth of the creek the relations of the beds are, at 

 first sight, not easily determined, but by observing the sequence 

 shown in other places in the neighbourhood, become sufficiently 

 clear. Beginning from the sea coast we find the grey. Eocene 

 clays with limestone bands showing a high dip, the figures being, 

 N. 5°, W. at 28°, and gradually increasing to N. 20°, W. at 58°. 

 A few yards further and a reversal takes place, the direction and 

 amount being, W. 10°, N. at 72°, this giving place almost 

 immediately to the slightly lower dip of 67^ in tlie same direction. 

 The beds are then succeeded by basalt, which occupies the bed of 

 the stream for nearly a chain, and over which the ascent is steep. 

 An outcrop of granitite (?) then occurs for 30 feet, when a small 

 patch of basalt again appears. At a height of 45 feet above sea 



1 This locality is referred to by M'Coy in his Prodronius of the Palaeontology of Victoria 

 and elsewhere, as the llount Eliza beds, a fact for which we are indebted to Mr. J. A. 

 Kershaw, curator of the National iluseuui. 



