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convinced by the evidence that the material originates from 
beds now covered by the sea, beds thrown down by the great 
fault system known to exist, protected to some extent by the 
deep sea deposits, and lying south of the continental shelf. 
As a surmise, I should say that just as the great trough faults 
bf the Dead Sea area have exuded bitumen in places, seen by 
be nóted that Kerguelen is in the direct line of the west 
wind drift, the waters of which are carried up the Western 
Australian coast as well as along the southern coast of 
Australia and around the island of Tasmania. If the bitumen 
originated at Kerguelen the outcrops are probably submarine 
In position. 
FOSSIL RESIN. 
oig where the pieces of asphaltum occur recknell 
andhills, on the southern coast of Kangaroo Island, I found 
the two in associatio ; refers the to the 
species "retinite," a variety of copalite. These resins have no 
genital relationship to the mineral oils, but they may have 
had a similar geographical origin as that of the asphaltum 
Waifs. If Kerguelen Island be the source, then we must 
assume that the resins have been derived from uere: 
"tive 
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Product, we may assume, have been subjected to such a change. 
— 
(0) See Tate: “On the Occurrence of Marine Fossiliferous 
Rocks at Kerguelen Island," Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., v. 24 
..M900), p. 105. 
