OLDER TERTIARIES OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA. 
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association of our marine Miocene and Eocene deposits, it has become 
the practice to associate the two latter under the name of Older 
Tertiary. 
LOCALITIES. 
Victoria. — Snowy River to the neighbourhood of Port Albert, 
including Lake Tyers, Jemmy’s Point, Bairnsdale, Mitchell River, 
Longford, Merriman’s Creek, and Woodside ; Flinders; Port Phillip, 
including Mornington (sometimes called Schnapper Point or coast 
between Mount Eliza and Mount Martha), and Beaumaris (some- 
times called Cheltenham or Mordialloc) ; South Varra ; Royal Park 
Keilor; Newport (shaft and bore) ; Alton a Bay (bore) ; Duck Ponds 
Creek (bore) ; Geelong district, including Cono Bay, Waurn Ponds, 
Barwon and Moorabool Valleys, Shelf ord, Murghebuloc, Maude, 
Belmont, Curlew is, Connewarre, and Spring Creek to Lou tit Bay ;. 
Birregurra ; Cape Otway; Aire River; Gellibrand River to Port 
Campbell and Curdie’s Inlet ; Camperdown (Lakes Bullen Merri and 
Gnotuk) ; Warrnambool ; Portland; Muddy Creek; Glen el g River; 
Edenhope ; Stawell (Welcome Rush, Glenorchy), ?? Violet Town;, 
underlying the plains of the Wimmera district. 
South Australia. — Mount Gambier; Murray River from Lake 
Alexandria to Overland Corner ; St. Vincent Gulf, Aid in ga (Port 
Willunga), Onkaparinga, and Hallett’s Cove; Stansbury, Port 
Vincent, and Editliburg; Great Australian Bight. 
Tasmania. — Table Cape on tbe nortli-west coast ; also isolated 
patches occur fringing the northern coast and the islands in Bass 
Strait, notably near Cape Grim, and Heathy Valley, Flinders Island. 
Western Australia. — Low coastal cliffs between Geraldton 
and Sharks Bay ; Great Australian Bight and for 150 miles inland. 
New South Wales. — Arurnpo Bore. 
HISTORICAL. 
The observations of such early explorers as Peron, Sturt, and 
Strzelecki should not be wholly overlooked, though their conclusions do 
not tend to throw any valuable light upon the subject at present under 
consideration. As far back as 1854 Sir A. R. C. Selwyn, then 
Government Geologist for Victoria, furnished a report, * in which, 
dealing with the Mornington beds, he states : “ Both the clay 
and limestone are very rich in fossil remains, and both in general 
lithological character, mineral and organic contents hear a striking 
resemblance to the clay and associated calcareous nodules of the 
London and Hampshire Basins.” In the same year Sir A . R. C. Selwyn 
presented to the Royal Society of Tasmania a collection of lossii shells 
from Mornington ; and the secretary, in acknowledging the donation, 
statesf that u the fossils are identical in several instances with shells 
which occur in the cliffs between the Inglis River and Table Cape on the 
north coast of Tasmania, described by Count Strzelecki as a raised 
beach, and resemble the fossils of the Paris Basin and London Clay.” 
* Report on the Geology, Palaeontology, and Mineralogy of the country situated 
between Melbourne, Western Port Bay, Cape Schanck, and Point Nepean, accompanied 
by a geological map and sections. Pari. Papers 1854-55, vol. i. 
f Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1854, p. 169. 
