246 C. A. SUSSMILCH AND T. W. E. DAVID. 



SEQUENCE, GLAOIATION AND CORRELATION OF 



THE CARBONIFEROUS ROOKS OF THE HUNTER 



RIVER DISTRICT, NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By C. A. Sussmilch, f.g.s., f.t.c., and Professor T. W. 



EDGEWORTH DAVID, C.M.G., D.S.O., F.R.S., Hon. D.Sc., Oxon. 



With appendices by 

 A. B. Walkom, d.Sc , and W. R. Browne, b.Sc 



With Plates XVIII - XXXI. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, December 3, 1919.'] 



List of Illustrations. 



(For full description of illustrations see end of paper.) 



Table of Contents. 



Part I. 

 Sequence and Glaciation of the Carboniferous rocks of the 

 Hunter River District, New South Wales, by C. A. Sussmilch,. 

 F.G.S., F.T.C. (Syd.). 



Introduction. 



Previous Observers. 



Subdivisions of the Carboniferous System : 



a. The Lower Carboniferous or Burindi Series. 



1. The Hilldale Mudstones. 2. The Limestones. 3 The 

 Conglomerates. 4. The Hilldale Tuffs. 5. The Stony 

 Creek Lava Flows. 6. The Ironstone Beds. 7. The 

 Lower Carboniferous Fossils. 



b. The Kuttung Series. 



1. The Wallarobba Conglomerates and Tuffs. 2. The 

 Martins Creek Beds. 3. The Mount Johnstone Series. 

 4. The Seaham Glacial Beds. 5. Geological age of the 

 Glacial Beds. 

 Summary of the Carboniferous Period in New South Wales. 



