﻿TMASSIC 
  GROUP. 
  

  

  133 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  Axials 
  I 
  am 
  acquainted 
  with, 
  commencing 
  with 
  a 
  bed 
  which 
  I 
  

   take 
  as 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  from 
  its 
  containing 
  a 
  few 
  fossils, 
  and 
  

   thereby 
  affording 
  a 
  recognisable 
  horizon 
  for 
  classifying 
  the 
  group. 
  

  

  Section 
  in 
  the 
  Hlowa 
  stream 
  (ascending). 
  

  

  Lower 
  Axials. 
  

   Dark 
  and 
  greenish 
  flaggy 
  shales 
  

  

  :i, 
  

  

  Sandstone 
  and 
  shales 
  ... 
  ... 
  ...>• 
  Seen 
  over 
  300 
  feet. 
  

  

  Dark 
  thin-bedded 
  shales, 
  with 
  carbonaceous 
  markings) 
  

  

  Uppee 
  Axiais. 
  

   ft. 
  Thick 
  -bedded 
  shale 
  passing 
  into 
  dark 
  massive 
  arenaceous 
  shales, 
  with 
  hard 
  

   nodules 
  interspersed. 
  (Cardita 
  and 
  small 
  indeterminable 
  gasteropoda) 
  

   b. 
  Dark 
  blue 
  shale, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  sandstone 
  bands 
  ... 
  ... 
  17 
  

  

  Eubbly 
  limestone 
  conglomerate, 
  with 
  a 
  little 
  blue 
  shale, 
  

  

  bedding 
  indistinct 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  \q 
  g 
  

  

  Hard, 
  coarse 
  conglomerate, 
  with 
  a 
  little 
  fine 
  sandstone 
  ... 
  5 
  9 
  

  

  Shales 
  and 
  sandstones 
  in 
  thick 
  and 
  thin 
  beds 
  ... 
  ... 
  

  

  Fine 
  thin-bedded 
  gray 
  argillaceous 
  sandstones, 
  with 
  shaly 
  

  

  partings 
  

   Ditto 
  thicker-bedded 
  ... 
  

   Thick 
  -bedded 
  sandstones 
  in 
  one 
  and 
  two 
  feet 
  beds, 
  with 
  shaly 
  

  

  partings 
  

   Coarse, 
  hard, 
  subporcellaneous 
  grit 
  

  

  Thin-bedded 
  shales 
  and 
  sandstones 
  and 
  one 
  six-inch 
  bed 
  ... 
  

   Conglomerate 
  

   Shaly 
  beds 
  ... 
  ... 
  ,„ 
  

  

  Hard 
  argillaceous 
  subporcellaneous 
  sandstones 
  ... 
  

  

  Shaly 
  beds 
  

  

  Massive 
  argillaceous 
  subporcellaneous 
  sandstone 
  

  

  Shaly 
  beds 
  

  

  Hard 
  subporcellaneous 
  sandstone 
  ... 
  ... 
  

  

  Shaly 
  beds 
  

  

  Massive 
  thick-bedded 
  gray 
  white-speckled 
  grits 
  

  

  Ditto 
  ditto, 
  but 
  in 
  thinner 
  beds 
  

  

  Shaly 
  beds 
  

  

  Thick 
  -bedded 
  subporcellaneous 
  white-speckled 
  grits 
  

  

  Ditto, 
  but 
  in 
  thinner 
  beds 
  ... 
  ... 
  

  

  Dark 
  shales 
  and 
  sandstone 
  

  

  Bluish 
  gray 
  subporcellaneous 
  sandstone 
  

  

  Dark 
  sandstones 
  and 
  shales 
  

  

  Dark 
  shales 
  ... 
  

  

  Creamy 
  blue 
  subporcellaneous 
  sandstone 
  

  

  Sandstone 
  and 
  shales 
  (ill 
  seen) 
  

  

  Massive 
  white-speckled 
  grit 
  

  

  188 
  

  

  34 
  

  

  

  

  4 
  

  

  6 
  

  

  64 
  

  

  

  

  5 
  

  

  

  

  68 
  

  

  

  

  3 
  

  

  

  

  21 
  

  

  

  

  102 
  

  

  

  

  102 
  

  

  

  

  34 
  

  

  

  

  21 
  

  

  

  

  3 
  

  

  

  

  5 
  

  

  

  

  25 
  

  

  

  

  129 
  

  

  

  

  25 
  

  

  

  

  43 
  

  

  

  

  12 
  

  

  

  

  51 
  

  

  

  

  21 
  

  

  

  

  129 
  

  

  

  

  45 
  

  

  

  

  5 
  

  

  

  

  215 
  

  

  

  

  11 
  

  

  

  

  110 
  

  

  33 
  3 
  

  

  1,364 
  6 
  

  

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  321 
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