BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., Ph.D., ETC. i^g 



talline series preponderate. He also mentions a boulder 

 containing silurian fossils, which had been found by Mr. 

 Stephens, the fossils being- described by R. Etheridge, 

 jun. (i). Kitson concludes his paper with the remark 

 that the glacial origin of these beds is beyond doubt. 

 He is, however, less certain as to its age, but it is evi- 

 dent that he accepts Montgomery's view, viz., that these 

 beds form the base of the permo-carboniferous series. 



The last who dealt with these glacial beds is Mr. 

 Stephens, who published forty years after the appear- 

 ance of his first paper another one dealing with the 

 geological features of the North-West Coast (2), in 

 which he still more emphasises the views expressed in 

 his first paper. 



In company with Mr. Stephens I visited Wynyard 

 in February, 1908, and during my examination of the 

 strata at Sandy Cove Blufif I made an observation, which 

 may be of far-reaching consequence not only for the in- 

 terpretation of this outcrop, but for the geology of Tas- 

 mania on the whole. I intended to visit Wynyard again 

 before publishing my notes, but as it is not very prob- 

 able tliat I shall find time during the coming summer, 

 and as others may visit Sandy Cove Bluff in the mean- 

 time, I wish to draw the attention to the peculiar 

 features I observed, with a view to have them either 

 confirmed or refuted. Before discussing this particular 

 point, I will briefiy describe the sequence of beds. 



2. THE SEQUENCE OF BEDS AT FREESTONE 

 BLUFF (SANDY COVE). (PL. IX.) 



In descending order we see — 

 (c) Basalt. 



(b) Sandstone with fossils, 

 (a) Clay with scratched boulders. 



(i) Description of Remains of Trilobites from the Lower 

 Silurian Rocks of the Mersey River, and Brachiopoda from the 

 Conglomerate of Table Cape. Pap. and Proceed. Roy. Soc, 

 Tasmania, 1882, pag. 158. 



(2) Notes on the Geology of the North- West Coast of Tas- 

 mania from the River Tamar to Circular Head. Proceed. 

 Linnean Soc, New South Wales, 1908, Vol. XXXIII., pi. 4, 

 pag. 752 ft. 



