130 

 6949, asphalt rock, Buena Yista. 



6480, liydrocarbous condensed on the timbers of a tunnel 

 driven for oil. 



6475, argillaceous bituminous limeistone with fossils of Eocene 

 age. This overlies the oil strata. 



6479, drill core, showing Tertiary fossils. The associated 

 shales and sandstones are also shown. 



5972, Tar Point, Canada : igneous rock, showing patches of 

 petroleum. 



3162, Grisborne, New Zealand : crude oil. 



Oil shales from Kentucky and Scotland, including the original 

 iorhanite (5916) from Torbane Hill, Edinburgh. 



Tasmanite, Tasmania (3156). 



An oil-bearing shale of no present commercial value. Under the 



microscope it is seen to contain numerous lens-shaped bodies of 



vegetable origin. 



Peat — A cai'bonaceous deposit resulting chiefly from the 



accumulation of moss {spliagnum) in small lakes. Its occurrence 



is confiued to temperate regions. Scotland, Eussia, Scandinavia. 



Lignite — A transition stage between vegetable matter and 

 true coal. Yictoria (Morwell), South Australia (Leigh's Creek), 

 "West Australia, Ncav Zealand, Devonshire, Russia. 



Caiinel Goal — Great Britain, America. 



J"e^— Whitby. 



Case 94, bituminous Coal — Queensland, Tasmania, IN^ew Zealand, Yic- 

 toria, West xlustralia, India, South Africa, Borneo, ]Vew Caledonia, 

 Great Britain, Germany, Argentine Eepublic, United States. 

 The coke manufactured from some of these coals will be found 

 in pyramid case 107. 



Anthracite. — Wales, Eussia, Pennsylvania, and other American 

 localities. See case 103 for a fine block of Pennsylvanian 

 anthracite. 



GrapJute— Ceylon, Canada; also in crystalline rocks from 

 Hussia. 



