GEOLOGY OF NORTH GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA. if 
The relations of these various formations to each other and their 
general relations to the mountain-chain, the Australian Alps, will 
be seen from the diagram-section, fig. 1. The Carbonaceous (Meso- 
zoic) strata of South Gippsland have been added to complete the 
comparison, but will not be further considered, as they lie outside 
the district described. 
Table of the Geological Formations of North Gippsland. 
(a) Auriferous slates and sandstones of 
rivers Crooked, Dargo, Wentworth, 
Nicholson, Benang, Bendoc, and De- 
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| 1. Selurian ............ 4 PeBaees 
(6) Metamorphic crystalline schists of the 
Omeo district. 
(¢) Granites connected with (a) and (0). 
I, Lower Patzxozotrc. 
( (@) Snowy-River porphyries; felstones and 
agglomerates of Wombargo. 
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(€) Middle Devonian limestones of Buchan 
‘ -and Bindi; Tabberabbera shales. 
2. Devoniaw ......... 
(f) Upper Devonian shales and limestones 
of Cowombut and Native-Dog Creek, 
Iguana-Creek and M aximilian-Creek 
beds, Snowy-Bluff and Mount-Tambo 
beds (?). 
3. Carboniferous...... (7) Sandstones of Avon river. 
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II. Urrer Paumozoic. 
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( 4. Miocene ............ (%) Bairnsdale limestones. 
marls of Jemmy’s Point and Lake 
Tyers. 
(&) Dolerites and basalts of Dargo Higa 
Plains, Cobungra, Nunnyong, Gelan- 
tipy. 
( (7) Sand- and grayel-beds up to about 800 
feet above sea-level ; clay terraces along 
the rivers and lakes ; sand dunes, 
swamps, flooded lands, and river- 
gravels now forming. 
(oe Moitun-Creek beds; sandstones and 
III. Terriary. 
6. Pleistocene and 
Recent ..........4. 1 
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