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G-eology of Sydney. 
the geology of Australia, and therefore I think it well 
to introduce here a table showing the general suc- 
cession of Australian stratified rocks. 
TABLE. 
Showing the General Succession op Australasian 
Strata. 
o 
2 
W 
a, 
System. 
Some Typical Examples. 
Recent. 
H 
o Pleistocene. 
a 
Gravel, sand, loam and mud now accumulating. 
Alluvial flats and great plains of the Interior. Raised 
peaches of the N.W. coast, Tasmania. Large area in 
the south-east of South Australia. 
r 
Pliocene. 
Miocene. 
Eocene. 
Limestone Creek, AVestern Victoria. Upper vol- 
canic, Queensland. Marine limestones, Croyden Bore 
Adelaide. * 
River Murray Cliffs, Corio Bay, Victoria. Hallett’s 
Cove, near Adelaide. County of Wentworth (under 
Pleistocene', New South Wales. Lower volcanic 
Queensland. 5 
Coralline Limestones of Shark’s Bay, West Aus- 
tralia. Carbonaceous beds, Cape Otway. Muddy 
Creek beds, Victoria. Great Australian Bight 
Aldinga, South Australia. Table Cape beds, Tasmania 
Plant beds near Emmaville, New South Wales. 
No Marine beds of Eocene, Miocene , or Pliocene age 
are known east of the main Dividing Range in New 
South Wales or Queensland. 
Cretaceous. 
Jurassic. 
Triassic 
or 
Trias Jura. 
Upper Cretaceous.— Desert sandstone of Queens- 
land. ^ 
Lower Cretaceous. — Rolling Downs formation of 
Queensland. Artesian water bearing beds of north- 
western New South Wales. Kennedy Range and 
Gascoyne Kiver, West Australia. 
Beds with fossil fish, Talbragar River, New South 
Wales. Oolitic limestone of Champion Bay District, 
West Australia. 
The Hawkesbury Sandstones and associated shales 
of New South Wales. Lower Mesozoic Rocks of the 
Clarence River. The Ipswich and Burrum Beds of 
Queensland with Tamiopteris. The upper Coal 
Measures of Tasmania, and the Collie Creek Coal 
Measures of West Australia are considered to be of 
Mesozoic age. 
