PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN TABLELAND OF N.S.W. 331 



NOTES on the PHYSIOGRAPHY of the SOUTHERN 

 TABLELAND OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By O. A. SUSSMILCH, F.G.S. 

 [With Plates IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV.] 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, November 3, 1909.] 



Table of Contents. 



A. Introduction. 



B. Previous observers. 



C. General Description 



D. Description of the Yass-Canberra Tableland. 



E. The Fault Blocks. 



I. The Yarrangobilly Fault Block. 

 II. The Kiandra Fault Block. 



III. The Adaminaby Fault Block. 



IV. The Berridale Fault Block. 

 V. The Tinderry Fault Block. 



VI. The Kosciusko Fault Block. 



F. The Senkungsfelder. 



I. The Jindabyne Senkungsfeld. 



II. The Colinton Senkungsfeld. 



G. The Fault Escarpments. 

 H. The Peneplains. 



I. The Monaro Peneplain. 



II. The Barren Jack Peneplain. 



III. The Mount Ainslie Peneplain. 

 I. The Murrumbidgee River. 



J. Summary. 



A. Introduction.— The following notes are the results of 

 observations made during several vacation trips across the 

 southern tableland of New South Wales. The area dealt 

 with is so extensive and most of it so inaccessible, that a very 



