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as Doughboy Creek (sixteen miles) the road crosses highly inclined brown and yellow 
^ndstonos. Near Doughboy Creek these bods are oveidaid unconformably by tablelands of 
6sert Sandstone, which extends south- westwai'd nearly to the Broken River. For the 
nex:t six miles, to Christmas Creek, the road traverses brown and yellow sandstones, 
f?fits, and conglomerates. Near Christmas Creek aniygdaloidal porphyrite is seen on 
the road, but its relation to the sandstones, &c., could not be. made out. Beyond this 
point the setting in of the wet season made further geological observations impossible, 
®o that I am unable to say how far the Devonian rocks extend to the oast of the Clarke 
Diver. 
The strata seeu on the Townsville road nearest the mica-schists, it must be remein- 
oied, arc high up in the Devonian Series. They therefore, probably, do not in this 
ocality overlie the mica-schists, but arc most likely divided from the latter by a fault. • 
, Deferring again to the section seen on the Broken Diver, it will bo observed that 
^e thick limestone. No. 20, is the lowest bed in which I have actually observed the 
Occurrence of fossils, although the time at my disposal was far too limited to admit of 
^ careful search. For anything, therefore, that can be proved to the contrary, the 
un erlyiug beds, which have a thickness of 10,000 feet, may pass downward into the 
oner Devonian or even Silurian. But no such division can be made without positive 
VI ence, and as the whole section of 20,782 feet forms an unbroken series it must for 
the present be regarded as Middle Devonian. 
When the “Handbook of Queensland Geology ” was published, I was under the 
impression that the strata above described as lying on the Fanning Limestone were the 
equivalent of the “ Dotswood Beds ” in the Keolbottom Valley, and that both ■were on 
the ^otizon than the “ Star Beds.” The “ Star Beds” form the lowest member of 
ei’mo-Carboniferous Scries, and therefore are, probably, most nearl}^ related homo- 
tl ^ \ European Carbonifci’ous.* More recent observations have shown (1st) 
^ la the ‘Dotswood Beds” and the “Star Beds” arc identical; and (2nd) that the strata 
th Fanning Limestone are the equivalents of similar strata which overlie 
g ® voken Diver (Middle Devonian) Limestone, and with which thin beds of limestone 
^on aining the same fossils as the Broken Diver Limestone itself are intercalated. The 
^^a a above both the Banning and the Broken River Limestones are now regarded as 
fr same formation as these limestones, and as there can be no passage 
wo^'^l Devonian into Carboniferous, the “ Star Beds,” with which the “ Dots- 
0 eds are now united, must bo unconformably related to the former. 
^ Dart of this area is further described by Mr. Maitland in his Deport on the 
CO ogy and Mineral Resources of the Upper Burdekiipf as follows : — 
, . series of strata classed under this head [Burdekin Beds] occupy a very 
®stensmc tract of country. 
and bnsiu is bounded on the west by a belt of schistose rocks of variable width, 
SmaU^ ^6^ north and west by the granitic rocks which make up the main coast range. 
Hilli 
sho 
'^bove and below them. 
patches of schistose rocks, however, are seen near the tin lodes at Kangaroo 
separating the Burdekin Beds from the granite, but of too small an area to bo 
wn on the map. 
lu their lithological characters they present a marked contrast to the rocks 
The strata consist for the most paid of dark-buff and reddish 
known as th “ Star Beds” iire the equivalent of what in New South AValea are at present 
•■opresentaf ** Bower Carboniferou,s,” but which, it is anticipated, will in future be regarded as the nearest 
IVales n Carboniferous of Europe. These T have now termed Carboniferous in the New South 
lassitication. (.gee Mem. Geol. Survey, N. S. Wales, Pal. Series, No. 5, pt. 1, 1S91, p. 0.-i?. E. junr.) 
Tnri,sbane ; by Authority ; IROl, p. 4. 
