COMPARED WITH THOSE OF AUSTRALIA. 69 ; 
L. Lower Newcastle Coal Measures 
a, Mt. Potts’ beds N.S.W. 
os Kahiku beds 
Glossopteris beds : 
a. Conglomerates . 
. Red sandstones 
Wanting ? we Creek beds and 
ollongong beds, 
N.S.W. 
oo Lower Carboniferous Port Stephens beds, 
. Maitai slates N.S.W. 
Te Anau beds Tasmania. 
Gympie Creek, Queens- 
land Ri 
XIII. Lower Devonian— Murrumbidgee beds, . 
Reefton beds N.S.W. 
st Upper Silurian Yass and Hume beds, 
_ River slates N.S.W. 
ect ge b. mestones derase River, Tasmania. ; 
¢. Glerpauiinca slates 
XV. Lower Silurian— sgn wel slates of 
hee abe aga slates Vict 
€ Herabletede rocks 
The following are ages of the approximate thicknesses in 
feet of these for mations :— eo 
Pliocene ae = me eat 1,500 
Upper Miocene ee 6 ou iz 500 to 1,000, 
Lower Miocene a be ae ... 1,000 to 1,500 
Upper Eocene ... the te on ass 500 to 700 
Cretaceo-tertiary he ay yt a a One 
Lower Greensand we ie ee ay 00 
Jurassic. : Oe oe 1 B00 te Oe 
i: a : 2,000 
eee fo Trias i se 5,000 to 8,000 
eae, 600 to 7, 000 
iat Casboniforous aia ad Upper Devonian .... 7,000 to 10, 000 
Lower Devo a: 5,000 
Pinan oS ee 3,000 
Lower Silurian... Sx a ak ... 4,000 to 10,000 
LEP ocens: 
a. Terrace plains, Seinde Island limestone. 
6. Pumice sands and lignite series. 
lassed 3 
as post-tertiary and recent have already been referred to. The oe 
—_— formation belongs to a period when New Zealand was 
