SrEiGuT.—Benmore Coal Area of the Malvern Hills. 621 
series, and the following is a summary of his record (see Section 1, although 
this is intended for the creek farther west) :— 
1. Shales and кру ошын е .. 60 ft. to 80 ft. 
2. Bluish sandy cla : E Та 
3. Brown coal 11 in. 
4. ро and white quartzose sands alter- 
ating 11 ft. 
5. Clays, shales, sandy clays, $ and brown coal in 
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6. Brown coal, main seam 4 ft. 7 in. 
7. Shales, pum and sands, with occasional layers 
coal . 3: 110 ft. (approx.) 
8. Oyster-beds with intercalated cla 6 ft. 
9. Sands and shales interstratified, the former 
yellowish-green or greyish weathering pink 
and brown, with smell of H,S, and лема 
of bau 14 60 ft. 
The uppermost beds exposed in this creek strike N. 10° W., and dip 
south-west at angles approximating 20^, but the lower beds swing round 
till they strike more to the north-west. At the top of the exposure the 
beds ы much disturbed, slickensided, crushed, and apparently overtu 
along a line of fault, as if the greywackes had been thrust against them 
TO h-east. T i 
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oyster-bed, which co ontains Ostrea dichotoma like that in the Glentunnel 
area of the re Hills, and definitely correlates the two occurrences as 
being of the sa 
The bed lii by Haast а “© porphyry conglomerate " is a conglomerate 
with a fine-grained matrix in which are pebbles of a rhyolite similar to that 
i i i the Rockwood 
the pebbles, the conglomerate is similar to that which occurs elsewhere in 
the Malvern Hills at the base of the Cretaceous series, notably at mean: 
Gorge, White Cliffs, and on the south-eastern slope of "Mount Misery ; 
its occurrence at Benmore is somewhat remarkable, since the nearest ch yolitel 
in position are in the neighbourhood of High Peak, on the Upper Selwyn, 
nine miles away in a straight line, whereas Mount Misery is twelve miles 
distant. A similar conglomerate occurs in the basin of the Kowai at the 
bridge over the river, where there is a small exposure of coal- -measures, 
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occurrence of a pebble of rhyolite in a conglomerate in the coal-measures 
at Craigieburn, near Lake Pearson (“ The Geology of the Trelissick or Broken 
River Basin, Selwyn County,” sal N.Z. Inst., vol. 19, pp. 398-99, 1887), 
and ts bearing on the form of the land when the beds were laid 
This | ebble is in a collection at the Canterbury Museum, and 
Hutton’s determination can be confirmed. 
few chains to the north-west of this creek is another coming in from 
the slopes of Benmore, but in this the sequence cannot be seen as clearly 
(see Section 1). The rhyolite conglomerate occurs at the base, resting on 
