CIllDEKU HILLS. 



249 



Feet. 



Hard rusty dolomite, with a Cardinia and Ano}jlophora 3 



Green marls ... ... ... ... 



Rusty dolomite ... ... ... ... 3 



Green sandy marls, with thin sandy layers and gypsum 20 — 30 



Hard limestone with many bivalves ... ... 3 



Rusty sandstone, fucoids • ... .,. ... 3 - 



Grey sandstones with CeraUtes, Oervillia, Orthoceras ... 3 



Rusty sandstone, with fucoids ... ... ... 2 



Teiassic •^ Grey marls with flaggy limestone ... ... 2 



Grey marls, nodular marls, and hard limestones, with 



spinose Ceratites ... ... ... 50 



Ceratite sandstone, not clearly seen, with extremely large 



species of C. Flemingii ... ... ... 10 — 20 



Green Ceratite marls ... ... ... 60 — 80 



Flaggy lower Ceratite limestone ... ... 3—5 



Grey sandstone ... ... ... ... 6 



[ Green mai-ls ... ... ... ... 4 — -5 



r Yellow soft sandstones, with concretions ; filled with fossils, 

 6. Caebonifeeous ■{ Bellerophon, Athyris, Dentalium Serculaneum, &c. 



^_ (Top of the carboniferous limestone group.) 



Some of the grey and rusty beds in tliis patch of the triassic rocks very 

 much resemble the upper tertiary sandstone beds, and the white and 

 variegated beds at the top of , the series detailed may be probably the 

 base of the Jurassic group. 



To the north-west of Chiderii the carboniferous rocks cover nearly all 



the hilly ground, and form besides a small outlyiug 

 North-west of Chideru. n ^ -r, ^ tkt ' 



hill, opposite to the mouth oi the ±5azar Wan, 



in which the following succession of beds was observed : — 



Caebonifeeoxts. H 



fS. White crinoidal and grey compact thin-bedded limestone... 



7. Red marbled vesicular limestone ... 



6. Light-coloured compact limestone, with Echinus spines and 

 Bellerophon 



5. Compact limestone 



4. Cherty limestone ... ... ... , 



3. Reddish limestone 



2. Cherty, yellowish, magnesian limestone 



1. White crinoidal and coral limestone, 6 feet seen, but 

 i may be ... 



Feet. 



36 



3 



7 



10 

 15 



2 



5 



60 



