‘COAL-FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 663 
Tabular Comparison of the Terms used by some Authors. 
Dunn. 
StorMBERG BEDS. 
Cave Sandstones. 
Buff, pinkish, greenish- 
white, and grey, fine- 
grained, thick-bedded 
sandstones. 
150 feet. 
(Fragments of Sauroid 
bones. ) 
Red Beds. 
Friable, red, and purple 
arenaceous shale; fri- 
able red sandstone, 
mottled green, alter- 
nating with grey fel- 
spathic sandstones. 
600 feet. 
(Fossil wood in lower 
beds.) 
Coal-measures. — 
Grey and light-coloured 
sandstones, generally 
felspathic, alternating 
with beds of shale, in 
which coal-seams occur. 
Conglomerate beds. 
1000 feet. 
(Casts of plants, fossil 
wood, &c.) 
(Coal, 300 to 400 feet 
above the Upper Ka- 
roo beds.) 
Urprer Karoo Bens. 
In descending Order. 
Stow. Penning. 
Urprrr Karoo. 
Upver Karoo (so-called). 
High-Veldt Beds. 
As described. 
Coarse, rather friable, 9300 feet. 
irregular-bedded sand- 
stones. 
Uppermost Zone of La- 
custrine Beds. 
Lower Portion of Upper 
Karoo Beds. 
Chocolate shales. 
Grey shales. 
‘““Black-band ” (Coal) 
shales. 
(The Forest-zone is from 
60 to 150 feet above 
the coal.) 
Kimberley Beds. 
Olive- and chococlate- 
coloured shales. 
Dark blue and grey 
and greenish shales. 
2300 feet. 
Mr. Stow considered that ‘the great lacustrine series, from 
fossil remains found in them, appear to be the equivalent of 
rocks similar to those called ‘Triassic? in the northern hemi- 
sphere” (Report, 1878, p. 23). The only fossils I have seen in 
these sandstone beds are of a Glossopteris (?), in the sandstones upon a 
farm where the silver-lode occurs, referred to at page 666. Impres- 
2x 2 
