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stril-- vicinity of Wairuna Station, vertical shales of a reddish-purple colour 
■'vrstV^^^*^^' ®o^dh, some of which look not uulilce fine volcanic ashes. At oue place 
s loin the station some of the shales are found to be associated with thick beds of 
1 ar zite ; those strike north-east and south-west. The AVairuua beds are soon cropping 
ip at intervals along the track to Lake Lucy Station. 
wit] environs of Lake Lucy arc made up of reddish clayey shales, identical 
^ 1 1 tlioso above described, and having the same general trend — viz., north-east and 
^ 1 i-west. Intorstratilied with these shales are bauds of limonite intermingled with 
Hie s of quartz. These bauds are not continuous for any distance. All of these 
.’amined wore parallel with the bedding planes, and of very variable thickness. A few 
Bed" ^ intersect these shales. Between Lake Lucy and Oak Hills, the Wairuna 
bv f country ; they retain the same character and strike. Unless repeated 
au ting and folding (which is not improbable) these Wairuna Beds must be of 
enormous thickness. 
Among the rocks above described there may be beds which future detailed 
apping may prove to belong to other systems. 
1 , -L, present, in the absence of paleontological or strati graphical evidence, the 
^ ® ® provisionally classed as belonging to oue system.” 
cai 11 ^ to tlie north of Torrent Creek, on the western side of the Reid Gap, is 
ofPpe y a stratified deposit. The lowest strata are of limestone, of a total thickness 
depo feet, divided by occasional thin layers of hardened sand.stone. The 
oth 'raries in quality from top to bottom, some strata being dark-blue limestone, and 
Abo^* n saccharine marble. Some of the blue bods arc full of fossil corals, 
calp thickness of about 40 feet of hardened grey mudstones with 
areoim bands. The strata on this hill-top dip N. 30° E. at about 25°. 
«+t-o+-i 3 1 ^ opposite or eastern side of the Gap is likewise composed of 
stratified deposits, as follow 
L hardened white sandstone or quartzite partly conglomeratic ... ... a 
• *- andstone (tliickness uncertain) 
a- Good blue limestone with corals, say 30 
fard mudstones and rme-grained hardened sandstones (almost 
quartzites), witli limestone in bands along bedding pianos ... 80 
xood blue limestone (base concealed by talus) ... ... ... 
descril strata numbered t and 5 in the above section are tlic same as those already 
base capping the hill on the opposite side of the valley. The limestone at the 
H e section last given lies directly on granite. 
‘fip to tl hill-tops west of the railway at Double Barrel Creek, the following strata 
ncTo ° south-west, and rest unconformahly on groywackes, &c., probably of the same 
as the stratified rocks west of Charters Towers 4 
Daik-hlue limestone, full of corals; the lower part only divided by 
partings of quartzite, at least 
Alternate quartzite, limestone, and marble bands, say '. 
hilue greywacko 
Alternate quartzite and limestone bands 
Dark-blue groywacke 
Scrub, perhaps covering 
Limestone with quartzite bands 
Bine-grained dark-blue grey wacke .. . 
^pure saccharine marble, with dark streaks 
Dark-blue coralline limestone, about 
Feet. 
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100 
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40 
5 
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40 
4 
15 
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