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and ice ; and much of the granitic debris would be carried with the 

 erratics on the surface of the glacier, or ground into " rock flour " 

 beneath its weight. A whitish, imperfectly cemented sandstone forms 

 the most characteristic feature of the moraines of that age in South 

 Australia, and was carried in such quantity that the older valleys of 

 the districts concerned were choked with material up to 1,500ft. in 

 thickness, which has had the effect of splitting up the main lines of 

 drainage into numerous smaller outlets. The absence of superincum- 

 bent mass and rock strains, in the interval which separates that period 

 from the present, has left the morainic matter almost unaltered. Where 

 the ground moraine exists in hollows of the glacial pavement, it is very 

 hard from the compression it has undergone ; but, as a rule, the clay 

 constituent is easily washed out, and a fine incoherent white sand is 

 left behind and forms the principal surface feature. 



VICTORIA. 



The following notes were sent hy Mr. A. E. Kitson, from Colombo 

 {whilst on voyage to Europe), addressed to Professor David, the Gen. Sec. 

 of Glacial Research Committees. 



Since the last meeting of the Association (Dunedin, 1904:) the only 

 published paper on the glacial geology of Victoria that I have seen is 

 one by Mr. W. H. Ferguson, of the Geological Survey of Victoria, 

 entitled " Report on Glacial Conglomerate of supposed Jurassic Age, 

 in Parish of Wonga Wonga, near Foster, Southern Gippsland," pub- 

 lished in the records of the Geological Survey, Vict., Vol. I., Part 4. 



The author records his discovery, in August, 1902, of a glacial 

 deposit consisting of pebbles of indurated mudstones, shales, sand- 

 stones, grits, quartzites, jasper, cherts, lydianite, felsites, granite, &c. 

 (some showing polish, striation, and facetting ; others none), in a road 

 cutting at Chitt Creek, in the hillsides adjacent to and some distance 

 to the west of that place. 



Although he is apparently inclined to regard them as belonging 

 to the Jurassic period, he concludes his report by leaving the question 

 of age open. He suggests three periods, viz. : — (1) Permo-Carbon- 

 iferous ; (2) Jurassic ; (3) Post Permo-Carboniferous to Pre-Jurassic. 

 He gives the sequence of the beds at Chitt Creek as follows — commencing 

 at the youngest beds : — 



(1) Jurassic sandstones of moderate texture. 



(2) Glacial conglomerate, a few feet thick at most. 



(3) Loose angular, sub-angular, and waterworn boulders and 



pebbles of the underlying rocks. 



(4) Altered Silurian rocks (shales, sandstones, and quartzites). 



Mr. Ferguson was not able to determine, from the field evidence, 

 the relation of the glacial deposit to the underlpng and overlying 



