SEC. 3.] 



ETJNN-ISLAND EANGE TROM PUTCIIUM TO CHORAE. 



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being one of the few instances in which these red dykes have been 

 observed associated with the lateritic group. Here they occur just at 

 the junction crossing the lower beds and coming up to^ but — so far as 

 could be seen — not passing throughj the laterite. 



This, however,, was removed for a little distance near one of them 

 by denudation, and in another spot the section was confused by the 

 rubbly weathered state of the surface and some slips or small faults. 



Not far from this place a small section exposed three different 

 Varieties of the late- arrangements of the ferruginous materials of the 

 ritic beds. beds, the uppermost of which resembled that shown 



in Fig. 1, and contained imbedded agates ; below this the white and more 

 earthy clay had the ferruginous portion in horizontal laminations, while 

 beneath all was a more solid and homogeneous bed. 



In the stream which passes Bela the red laterite and white beds 

 beneath are also to be seen. 



On the flanks of Mooanna hill the same calcareous hard fossiliferous 



beds, as occur to the west, re-appear, with some of 

 Mooanna hill. 



the peculiar compressed concretionary ferruginous 



bands so frequently noticed in the Jurassic rocks (Fig. 5) . Some purple 



beds, near, are full of obscure fucoid (?) markings, while from the flanks 



Fig, 5.— Block of coneretionai'y feiTBginous sandstone, atont 2 ft. by 1 ft. in. 



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