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On the peapenbics of some Wood enclosed 
n Basalt. 
By A. Liversipez, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the 
University of Sydney. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 1 December, 1880.] 
THE specimen forming the subject of this note was found by Mr. 
C. 8. Wilkinson, F.G.S., at Inverell, where the Macintyre River 
has cut through the basalt and formed a river cliff; by the forma- 
tion of this section yan ial fragments of wood and trunks 0 
trees are exposed to vi 
the “ Mines and itso Statistics” published by the Mining 
pr lap in 1875, Mr. Wilkinson gives the following description 
of manner in which the fossilized wood occurs, and on 
Same page ) he iin a diagram showing the position occupied 
by the particular tree which this specimen w ni— 
“ An interesting cliff section of basalt may be seen on Mr. Co lin. 
Ross's oes on the bank of the riveratInverell. The following 
is a sketch of it :— 
— ———— Ss 7 eee ee So 09 an ; . C ; 
Pee. « 
¢ Fossil Lea ep Pee fe Nias Z 
Saaae Rea Nevo “oe 
we 
varying shades of deep red and yellow. This breccia is older than 
st abed, and evidently formed the side of a hill on which plants 
ee at the time of the basalt eruption ; oo at the junction 
a te salt and breccia lies a thin bed of red clay, the former 
of ee in which I discovered numerous stems ©: Sante: Some 
came woo batter but Tittle altered. ese are very ape 
thus 88 proving the viscid state of the overflowing basaltic lava, to have 
ed the small plants without destroying them, and 
