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Victoria; the ground moraines and extensive roche moutonnée fea- 
tures of Cape Jervis peninsula and at Hallett’s Cove, in South 
Australia; the Lochinvar bowlder beds, at the base of the Permo- 
Carboniferous series, in New South Wales; and probably, the 
tillites of the Irwin River district, in Western Australia. The 
last two localities are, respectively, in about 323° and 29° south 
latitude. In the more northerly localities, as Minilya, in Western 
Australia, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Bowen 
River beds, of Queensland, which are situated a few degrees within 
the tropics, the evidence is uncertain, and the deposits may have 
been laid down by floating ice. The same thing is also likely to 
have occurred on the south coast of Tasmania, and in some locali- 
ties of New South Wales. Such marine glacial deposits may have 
been synchronous with a partial submergence of the continent, 
following the maximum glaciation, as was the case in the Pleistocene 
glaciation of the Northern Hemisphere.’ 
PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION 
The glaciation that occurred in Australia during Pleistocene 
times was limited to the southeast highlands of the present con- 
tinent and the greatest altitudes in Tasmania. 
NEW SOUTH WALES 
Mount Kosciusko (7,328 feet), on the borders of New South 
Wales and Victoria, is the culminating point of an extensive upland 
plateau, forming the angle or knot, where the meridional moun- 
tains of the eastern coast unite with the occidental mountains of 
the southern coast. At the present time there is no permanent 
snow field in either Australia or Tasmania, although in sheltered 
«Dr. O. Feistmantel, in discussing the question of the correlation of the Permo- 
Carboniferous flora and glaciation as respectively developed in Australia, India, and 
South Africa, says: ‘“But I do not think it was contemporaneous over that whole 
region, and it appears to me that it (the glaciation) set in first in Eastern Australia, 
(New South Wales,) destroying the Carboniferous flora at an early date, while in 
southern Africa we find still a Carboniferous cr Coal measure flora of a higher stage, 
and only thereafter the change of climate appears to have taken place there.”’— 
“Geological and Paleontological Relations of the Coal and Plant-Bearing Beds of 
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Age in Eastern Australia and Tasmania,” Mem. Geol. Survey 
of N.S.W. Pal. No. 3, 1899, p. 181. 
