Fig. 13. 
lioulder airewn K'-ats, Xiillagiiie, Ptlbni-a Goldfield. 
colleague, the late Mr. Itecher, who was the first to commence the 
scientific study of the beds of the Xullagine Formation in the type 
district. Relying chiefly on the literature, a glacial origin for 
these was subsequently assigned by Professor Oavid. These flat- 
tened pebbles however. 1 think, owe their striated character to 
mechanical deformation and not to ice action, a view also, held by 
Dr. jack, who has had considerable ex])erience in glacial deitosits. 
and who has also had an opi)ortunity of examining the specimens 
in qnestion. 1 
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'The basal conglomerate at Xullagine is about diHl feet in i 
thickness, though in some localities this is missing, whilst at just- 
in-'l'iiiie. S miles from Marble Par. Avhere it had been mined for its 
gold contents, the bed varied from one inch to five feet six inches 
in ihickitess. 
Another good section is to be seen in the vicinity of Goonauar- 
rina Pool on the Sherlock River where the conglomerate — a view 
of which is de])icted in I'ig 14 — is seen to rest upon a platform 
of granitic gneiss and cr}'stalline schists. 
At Little Mount Phillips in the Barlee 'i'ableland. the basal 
bed is a coarse boulder conglomerate, which is ])retty well vertical 
In other localities, as at Rooney’s Patch, at the head of the 
Oakover River (at. 2:ideg. S.. long. I'dOdeg. 35min. E. approx.) 
the basal lieds of the Eiullagine bormation are, as may be seen in 
Fig. 15. very angular, and the rock is rather a breccia than a con- 
glomerate. Phis may really ret)resent a scree or talus deposit. 
