TRANSACTIONS 
or THE 
NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
Arr. ].—Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Seas in Australasia. 
By W. М. Benson, D.Sc., B.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Professor of Geology, 
University of "Otago. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 8th November, 1921, received RA T 20th December, 
1921; issued separately, Ist February, 19 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
The Stratigraphic his Structural Relationships of Australia and New Zealand: an 
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The Tecto nic ie Ro не of Australasia and Anta 
The deseri of Detailed See > anilo of Australasian Geological 
Form 
The Geological History of Australasia ae 10 oe E M Ir 
Cambria. is ap we Age 20 Lil 
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Silurian vee x H^ к ss TS iu 2:009 
Devonian os А, ae oris E x "m 7 20 
Carbonifer с эр Уе de un i. om 
** Permo- Carboniferous ” or Permian + vs v nie ge 
Triassic с i5 2 id eee nd 
Jurassic si x I (S АЙ) 
Late Jurmeio, Lower and Middle Cretaceous A ba E go A 
Upper Cretac p ;. D 
Post-Cretaceous 52 
Acknowledgments 
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List of cy dec ER cited a © = к. 2d с: БА 
THE STRATIGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS OF degenen AND 
New ZEALAND: AN HISTORICAL SKETC 
More than forty years ago Hector (1879) delivered in ayda an address 
on the “ Geological Formations of New Zealand compared with those of 
Australia,” which was used by Suess (1888) in his comparison of the 
relation of the eastern part of South America to the Andean zone on the 
one side of the Pacific with that of western Australia to eastern Australia 
and New Zealand on the other. he former unity’ of these two last 
regions had already been indicated in Neumayr’s (1883) chart of the 
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