588 TOULA ON THE GEOLOGY OF EAST GREENLAND. 



from this locality are: Cyprina, sp. {Cypr. SyssolcB, Keys.); 

 several Belemnites, among them well-preserved specimens of Bel. 

 Panderianus, d'Orb. ; Bel. absolutus^ Fisch. ; and indeterminable 

 fragments of a third species. The Ammonites are represented only 

 by two specimens ; one indeterminable, highly involute, with a 

 nearly circular transversal section; the other a new species, 

 PerispJdnctes Payeri^ somewhat similar to, but evidently different 

 from. Amnion, involutus, Quenst., and Ammon. striolaris, Rein. 



The Jurassics (Middle Dogger ?) of the S. coast are brown- 

 ish micaceous Sandstones, and a seam of bituminous fissile 

 Coal, associated with indistinct and indeterminable fragments of 

 plants. Possibly these beds may prove equivalent to the Car- 

 bonaceous Jurassics of Brora, Mull, and Sky (Scotland). These 

 fine-grained Sandstones include an abundance of a middle-sized 

 Ostrea, an incomplete cast of Goniomya v-scripta (Sow.), moulds 

 and casts of Myacites^ sp. indet. ; Modiola^ sp., reminding us of 

 Mod. Strajeskiana (d'Orb.) ; Avicula, sp., possibly Avic. Muensteri 

 (Goldf.), and an undetermined Belemnite. A coarse-grained 

 variety of these Sandstones, abundant in shells, includes an Ostrea- 

 like Bivalve with fibrous shell {Trichites, hycQii'^), two species 

 of Patella, a Nerita {Ner. hemisjihcerica, Roem. ?), moulds and 

 casts of Trochus, and spines of Echinida. 



The Sandstone on the southern coast of False Bay is very cal- 

 careous and light-coloured, with cavities including crystals of cal- 

 careous spar. The only hand-specimen collected includes nRhyn- 

 chonella perfectly agreeing with Ph. fissicostatu. Suess, a cha- 

 racteristic Rlij^tian form, — a young individual of a smooth and 

 equivalve Terebratula^ — a small, nearly circular, smooth Pecten, — 

 some indistinct casts of Bivalves, — and abundant sections of Cida- 

 rite spines. 



Palagozoic strata seem to be widely extended on the N. coast of 

 Francis- Joseph Fjord, in the form of red, brown, blueish, and 

 greeiiish, somewhat calcareous clay-slates, without any trace of 

 organic remains, and of grey or black, white-veined compact 

 Limestones. Possibly these may be analogous to the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestones. 



Fine-grained Gneisses, frequently separable into laminag, prevail 

 among the crystalline rocks. Those from the Francis-Joseph 

 Fjord contain Garnet (Almandine) in distinct rhombic dode- 

 cahedra up to the size of the fist. Oligoclase-gneisses occur at 

 Payer's Peak (7,000 feet altitude), in the westernmost part of the 

 same fjord, together with Gneissoid Micaschists. A fine Am- 

 phibolic Gneiss, with Amphibole crystals, two inches in length, 

 appears on the north point of Shannon Island, farther northward 

 at Haystack, and at Cape Schuhmacher, S.E. point of Kuhn 

 Island. Granitic rocks are rather subordinate, as gneissic Granite 

 near Cape Koner, and the" large-grained Granitite between Bessels 

 Bay and Cape Seebach (N. of Hochstetter Foreland), a compound 

 of white and reddish Felspar, Quartz, and black Mica in large 

 lamellae. Crystalline Dolomite is imbedded in the Gneiss of False 



