GLACIAL ACTION IN AUSTRALASIA. 
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2-REPORT OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO COLLECT 
EVIDENCE AS TO GLACIAL ACTION IN AUSTRALASIA. 
Members of Committee : 
Captain Hatton 
Mr. E. L. Jack 
Professor Tate 
Mr. G. Sweet 
Mr. J. Stirling 
Mr. W. Howchin 
Professor Dayid (Secretary). 
Mr. E. M. Johnston 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
By Professor RALPH TATE , Mr. WALTER HOWCHIN , and Professor 
T. W. E. DAVID . 
EVIDENCES OE GLACIATION AT HALLETT’S COVE. 
Hallett’s Cove is situated on tlie east coast of St. Yincent’s Gulf, 
about 15 miles S.S.W. from Adelaide. 
Extensive traces of glaciation were discovered here by Professor 
Ealph Tate, in 1877, and were described by him in a course of public 
lectures delivered in May the same year.* * * § 
In 1879 he read a paper on the subject of this discovery. f 
In 1888 he communicated a paper on the same subject to the 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science . X 
Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, the late Government Geologist of New 
South Wales, visited Hallett’s Cove in compan}^ with Professor Tate 
in 1887, and quite confirmed the latter’s opinion as to the phenomena 
there observable being certainly referable to ice action. 
In March, 1891, Mr. E. L. Jack, the Government Geologist of 
Queensland, visited the same spot in company with Professor Tate, 
and came to the conclusion that Professor Tate’s observation was 
correct in every particular j and he inferred from the evidence that 
the movement of the ice had been from south to north. § 
During the meeting of the Australasian Association for the 
Advancement of Science at Adelaide, in September, 1893, Professor 
Tate conducted over the ground a party of the members. A discussion 
arose as to whether the glaciation was Pre-Miocene or Post-Miocene, 
and in order to thoroughly test the question the Association voted the 
sum of £20 for making any excavations that might be thought neces- 
sary by the Glacial Committee. With a view to carrying out the 
wishes of the Association the spot was inspected in December, 1891, 
by Professor Tate, Mr. W alter Howchin, and Professor David. 
Mr. AV r . Eeynell, the owner of the property, kindly gave per- 
mission for making the excavations, and supplied workmen. 
With the help of Mr. L. Birks, of Adelaide University, and of 
the workmen, the necessary excavations were completed a few’ days 
later, and a plan and sections of the locality were prepared by the 
local members of the Glacial Committee, and the secretary, assisted 
by Mr. L. Birks. The results are detailed later on in this report. 
* Hep. Austr. Asa. Advt. Sci., vol. v., 1893, p. 31. 
f Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., vol. ii., p. lxiv. 
X Rep. Austr. Ass. Advt. Sci., vol. i., 1889, p. 231, 
§ Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea. By R. L. Jack and 
Robert Etheridge, junr., p. G19. By Authority : Brisbane, 1892. 
