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and overlaid by ba>alt. In these have been found such fossil 

 fruit ■ds—'Spotii/i^lus/rokis Smythii, Phuma'oanpnn Muckayi, 

 Celyphina AlcCoyi, Conchothe<a turgida, and Platycoiia Siillivani, 

 upon which the deposits have been co-related with the Ballarat 

 deep leads as Older Pliocene.*- Evidences are wanting, however, 

 to prove the precise age of the deposits ; the)' may be contem- 

 poraneous with sub-basaltic auriferous gravels and their associated 

 indurated clays, as on the Dargo High Plains,! where characteristic 

 Miocene plant-remains have been found. The overlying basalt 

 has been classed as newer volcanic, but, lithologically, it resembles 

 the older basalts more than those of the western district of 

 Victoria. 



Boring in the Latrobe Valley at Tarragon has disclosed several 

 distinct flows of basalt underlying that upon which the Pliocene 

 brown coals of the Morewell district have been deposited, so that 

 the Tangil basalt may be synchronous with one of these, and 

 therefore of Miocene age. 



Oldek Pliocene. 



Above these basalts are extensive deposits, both fluviatile and 

 marine, the latter consisting of sand rock, clays, and ferruginous 

 sandstone, sometimes coarse enough to be called a conglomerate. 

 This deposit extends along the Lower Tangil to the Latrobe, 

 Shady Creek, and Moe Swamp ; and apparently from Haunted 

 Hill along the watershed line between the Morewell and Narracan 

 Creek, thinning out over the older volcanic at an elevation of 900ft. 

 above sea level. It also flanks the Strzelecki Range, along the 

 southern Latrobe affluents round to Merriman's Creek and the 

 Agnes River. It overlies the Miocene limestones of Merriman's 

 Creek and covers elevations of 900ft. above sea level, as at Tom's 

 Cap. In various parts of the Tarwin Valley it is found overlying 

 the older volcanic, and similarly in the Bass Valley and over a 

 considerable portion of Phillip and French Islands at Western 

 Port. 



Middle Pliocene. 



Under this division I am inclined to place the extensive brown 

 coals of the Latrobe Valley and at Won Wren. The following 

 section of the boring near Morewell will illustrate the sequence 

 and phenomenal thickness of these liguitic deposits : — 



Ft. In. 



Surface and clay 36 '.> 



Brown coal ^9 8 



Light drifty and sandy clays 71 6 



Brown coal -'5 8 



Carried forward 163 4 ■ 



* Prog. Kep. Geol. Sur., Victoria* i^. 152., t Prog. Rep. Geol. Sur. Victoria.. 



