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2. Tlic next correlation will have to take place between the beds 
immediately above the boulder beds ; that is between the Talcliir Shales and 
Karharbari beds, Bacchus Marsh beds and Newcastle beds, -which also show 
a similar general character of the fossil flora. The Newcastle beds being 
considered Permian also, the other strata mentioned will fall in about the 
same epoch. 
3. Above the Newcastle beds in New South Wales there are the 
lla-wkesbury-Wianamatta beds, and in India above the Talcliir- Karharbari 
beds follows the Damuda-Pamchet Series, and this, I should think, has to 
be correlated next. 
Por the above view there is a further corroboration from the relations 
in the Salt Range in the Punjaub. There is also in that series of strata a 
boulder bed the position of which was for a long time uncertain, until only 
recently it appears to have been made out with satisfactory certainty. In a 
recent number of the Records of the Geological Survey of India, Dr. Warth,* 
an officer in the salt mines in the Salt Range, has proposed a classification for 
the strata of the Salt Range Series, in which the crystalline boulder bed has 
been already before declared to be of “ Upper Carboniferous age”; the 
Productus limestone is partly Carboniferous, but also Permian ; the Ceratite 
bed, Triassic, &c. The crystalline boulder bed, in which ice scratched and 
polished blocks were found, has been correlated with the Talcliir boulder 
bed ; both would thus he of about the same age. The Productus limestone 
would be an approximate equivalent of the Talcliir- Karharbari beds. The 
Ceratite beds would therefore represent the Damuda Series, and so on. With 
regard to the Australian strata they would follow iu a similar order. 
The relations may be represented in the following table : — 
Australia. 
India— Gondw&na System. 
India— Salt Range. 
New Zealand. 
Upper Mesozoic 
Wianamatta and Hawkes- 
bury beds. 
Newcastle beds 
Lower Marine Series, with 
boulder bed. 
Lower Carboniferous 
Upper Gondwana 
Damuda-Panchet Series 
(Middle Gfondwana). 
Talclur-Karharbari beds 
(Lower Gondwana). 
Talcliir boulder bed (ice- 
action). 
Jurassic. 
Ceratite beds 
Productus limestone 
Crystalline boulder bed. 
Otapiri beds,Wairoa beds, 
Oreti beds. 
Kailiiku Series. 
Maitai 'Series. Te Anau 
j beds. 
Devonian 
* Vol. XX, Pt. 2, 1887, pp. 117-119. 
