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Section ^ 7 
A ON Plan N" 5 
NORTHERN DISTRICT. 
Section showing the Strata and Seams of Coal at A on Plan, at Newcastle, County of Northumberland, 
New South Wales. 
Section — continued. 
Section — continued. 
Description. 
No. 1. 
•Soil iiml Clay 
C’oiit 
Firecl.iy 
Coal 
Worked byfhe Jlurtt'ood Company 
Dark Fireclay with Ironstone 
Bunds 
Sandstone and Shale, with a few 
Ironstone Bands 
Very hard Conglomerate . 
Blue Shale 
Hard Conglomerate 
Hard Sandstone, with Shale 
partings, generally a brown 
Conglomerate ... 
No. 2. 
Whltemetal 
Coal, with numerous Shale part- 
ings, and Glussopteris, Phyllo- 
theca, &c. 
Coal • 
Fireclay 
Coal 
Worked try the Buru>ood Company 
To 14 feet of white Metal .and 
Clay, with Gloasoptcris, Phyl- 
lotheca, &c 
To 75 feet ofindurated Clay Stone, 
with Shale partings, and 
Glossopteris, Phyllotheca, &c. . 
No. 3. 
Coni 
Grey Metal 
Coal ..... ..... 
Metal 
I Coni and Shale . 
6 Blue Shale 
6 Coal and Shale . 
= = 
Description. 
Clay Rock {sometime* Grey Post) 
Metal and Shale, with Giossop- 
teris, Phvllotheca, trunks, &c., 
of Conifer®, and seed-vesseU 
of Conifers 
No. 4. 
Shale, with 3 inches of Coal .... 
•Coal ‘ 
Fireclay 
Coal 
Shale ^ 
Coal ■ . . . 
Coal and Shale 
Dark Shale, with partings of 
Coal ■ 
Dtr^y Seam. This divides m 
some plaves at Netceastle, and 
forms two coal semns a considerable 
distance apart. 
Shale, with Glossopteris, Phyllo- 
theca, &c 
No. 5. 
Coal . 
Band . 
Coal . 
Yard Seam. 
Rock and Shale. . 
120 
m. 
Rock and Shale ,withSphenopteria, 
(. lossopteris, Phyllotheca, &c. 
iia. 
yo. 
m 
Cioal^ 
4c.,dl< 
S >uin< I 
ussi! 
Dcfcription. 
No. 6. 
Coal 
Band ,*■ 
Coal - 
Inferior Coal, with Bands 
Coal 
Inferior Coal, with Bands 
Coal 
Worked by Australian Agri~ 
rulturat, Co-operative, Lambtott, 
JVrtt' Lambton, Minmi^ Wallsend, 
atid Waratah Compames, 
Tlie meMurements, from No. 
4 toNo.Sseam inclusive are taken 
from the A. A, Company's 
Hamilton Pit. 
*low this, a Series of Strava containin/ : oUiei 
eith Phyllotheca, Vfrtehrar»a, Conife -a-.G!! .. 
‘c. ; and immediately below the UUeHa serh s 
L'ih. 
i< rates, Sandxtoaes, Grits, uod Khules. 
ii Fauna of the Lower Carboniferous 
skcell ent seams of Coal and Canned Coal 
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