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the great folding iiioveinents that affected our loAver palaeozoic rocks. 

 The plutonics of South-Eastern New South Wales are seen to be 

 definitely elongated along north-south lines, strikingly shown in 



Fig. 17. — Map showing- the distribution of granite exposures in South- 

 E>astern Australia, and indicating the predominance of elongation 

 along' North-South axes. In addition to the covering of young'er 

 sediments shown dotted, other granite areas are doubtless ob- 

 scured by rocks of Carboniferous and subsequent ages. 



the latest geological map of that State. In Victoria the occurrences 

 are fewer, with a greater area obscured by later sediments and 

 Yolcanics; still, a general elongation in a north-south direction is 

 observable. Had the sketch been continued southward to include 

 Tasmania, this point would have been further emphasized, especi- 

 ally in the better known granitic areas of the north-eastern part 

 of the island. The great mass of the Strathbogie ranges in Victoria 

 certainly appears to trend east-west, but close observation shows 

 that it may not always have been of this shape. To the north this 

 mass is of gradually lower relief, and is finally covered over by 

 the tertiary deposits of the '' Murray Gulf," etc., while on the 



