RELATIONSHIPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAINOZOIC SYSTEM. 
the upper beds of the Murray Cliffs. On the other hand, only one 
species in the Corio Bay series, Capulus danieli, Crosse, is restricted 
to Balcombian elsewhere. 
This particular phase of the earthy limestone of Corio Bay is also 
found to the east of Geelong, in the outer harbor at Curlewis, and its 
faunistic and lithological similarity was pointed out by Drs. Hall 
and Pritchard.* 
Curlewis.—The interpretation of the succession of the strata 
exposed in the cliffs from Clifton Springs to Curlewis is rendered 
somewhat difficult by the numerous faults which have occurred, 
and further made more obscure by landslips. By carefully piecing 
the evidence together the succession appears to be as follows. The 
lowest bed is a stratum of volcanic ash, almost black, followed by 
a 2-ft. bed of blue clay with fossils which passes into a greenish 
sandy clay with similar forms. The argillaceous fossil beds of 
this locality have yielded several restricted Janjukian fossils 
including Bela woodsi, Tate, Cypraea ovulatella, Tate, and Pecten 
praecursor, Chapman. Above this bed comes a hard polyzoal 
limestone, altogether about 6 feet thick. This limestone band 
crops out again a little way beyond the shore at low water, 
near the point of intersection of the parish boundary with the 
coast-line, as a curved or slightly undulating reef (Fig. 8). 
NVI SPENYS 
Sea level 
Palyiest SECTION 
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ii : < NEAR sumMmIT OF ANTICUNE 
7 AT CuRLEWwis (Ad 12), LoorK- 
y) INGE: SHowING POLY ZOAL 
i 3ea= ieee ROCK ASA REEF AT Low 
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This limestone, as pointed out by Messrs. Hall and Pritchard,§ 
is similar to that of the Moorabool Valley. To the westward, 
at the Geological Survey locality (Ad 12), I found in this 
* Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. vi. (N.S.), 1894, p. 6. 
+ Idem, ibid., p. 4. 
{ For some of these fossils the Museum is indebted to Mr. J. Hay Young. 
§ Loc. cit., p. 3. - 
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