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CORRELATION OF THE MARINE TERTIARIES OF 
AUSTRALIA. 
PART IIL, SOUTH AUSTRALIA anp TASMANIA. 
WitH GENERAL REMARKS AND APPENDICES. 
By Professor RatpH Tate and J. Dennant, F.G.8., F.C.8., &e. 
[Read May 5, 1896. ] 
Pruate II. 
CHAPTER [. SoutH AUSTRALIA. 
I. GEoGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF EOCENE STRATA. 
The chief areas occupied by deposits of this epoch are :— 
1. The plateau terminating in the sea-wall extending from 
Wilson Bluff on the West Australian Boundary to the Head of 
the Great Australian Bight.* The coast section has been 
described. 
2. Spencer Gulf—Point Turton in the southern part of Yorke 
Peninsula is an outlier of polyzoal limestone j, also about the 
shore of Wallaroo Bay, and extending inland to Boor’s Plain. 
3. St. Vincent Gulf—The west shore extending from Edith- 
burg to near Black Point is occupied by cliffs of polyzoal lime- 
stones ; a representative section is that of Surveyor’s Point{ ; 
outliers occur to the north of Black Point in the neighbourhood 
of Ardrossan. § 
On the east shore-line of St. Vincent Gulf, older Tertiary strata 
developed beneath Adelaide and its immediate vicinity have been 
described. || 
The older Tertiary sections, displayed in the sea-clifis of 
Aldinga Bay, to which reference has been made in some of the 
above-quoted papers, have not been described in detail, an omis- 
sion that it is now sought to supply. A brief summary was, 
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Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc., S. Aus., II., pp. 102-111, 1879. 
Tate, id., XIII., pp. 112-114, 1890. 
Pritchard, id., XV., pp. 179-180, 1892. 
Tepper, Roy. Soc. 8. Aust., IL, pp. 72-76, 1879. 
Tate, id. V., p. 40, 1882; XIII, p. 180, 1890. 
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