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^I’oken or disturbed by small faults. Eicb gold was obtained from the London, 
ttstol, German, Homeward Bound, Hibernia, and Chatsworth Eeefs in the ‘ First and 
Second Beds of Slate.’ 
. ‘ The outcrop of the beds underlying the limestone seems gradually to disappear 
^ he north ; thus the outcrop of the ‘ Third Bed of Slate ’ is at a much less distance 
of that of the limestone at the Chatsworth than at the London, while beyond the 
. ^ ®^'OTth I have been unable to trace the beds at all. Their absence might be due 
do thinning-out of the beds towards the north, or to a ‘ strike-fault,’ the 
owiithrow of which increases towards the north, the effect of which would be the 
iiig of the intermediate strata below the surface. The thickness of the strata is so 
dist^ scarcely possible they would have thinned out to nothing in so short a 
®^ice, and I think, therefore, that the latter explanation is the more probable. 
... . About five miles north-west of Gympie, in the old Timber Eeservc, deposits of 
nf .1 ® (sulphide of antimony) have lately been discovered in the limestone. Specimens 
fossil Protoretepom occur with its fine markings beautifully picked out in 
®. Martinia glabra * and Produotus brnohytlimrus f are also very numerous. 
of the 
stihniti 
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The country for some miles, both east and west of the auriferous rock of 
chiefly of laminated grey shales, with interbedded fine-grained sand- 
sa shales are bounded on the west by hardened silicated or jasperised 
th which, again, are the granite and serpentine ranges of Kilkivan and 
the Snake. On the north and east they are bounded by the coal-bearing beds of 
the V ^^^®trict. The general dip of the shales is east or north-east. In places 
Wh^ 1?*^^ south. At Tamaree there is a bed of white crystalline limestone, from 
gj.- ^ obtained a few fossils, among which were Avimlopecten, Spirifera, and 
Su ®f®nis. The limestone is being quarried and burnt for use in the Yengarie 
Sar Befinery. 
. fu several places the shales are covered with a coarse sandstone or freestone 
to the He.sert Sandstone formation. The shales are intersected here and 
i dykes and sheets of diorite and sheets of porphyry. 
'^itho have been worked in several places in the outside shales, but, so far, 
the ^uoh success ; some of the crushings have been good, but the cost of carting 
fiiiartz in to Gympie has been a great handicap.” 
have OOnlfifl IVTp TJ.c'nrM.e 
reeoyjj iroui ivrr. xtanas Eeport at great length, with the object of 
^ have quoted from Mr. Bands’ 
future comparison of strata of like age in other districts, 
from fu A® following is Mr. Etheridge’s list of the fossils which have been obtained 
'6 type district of Gympie itself : — 
Cordailes australis, McCoy ? 
Stenopora gimpiensis, Eth. fil. 
Fenestellafossula, Lonsd. 
„ sp. hid. 
Polgpora 'f Smithii, Eth. fil. 
^rotoretepora ampla, Lonsd. 
Pbombopora ? laxa, Eth. 
Spirifera vespertilio, G. B. Shy. 
), trigonalis, var. acuta, Eth. 
„ duhia, Eth. 
)> Stokesii, Konig. 
Btrzelechii, De Eon. 
n t Not ™y Colleague’s list. 
Tenest n Colleague’s Gympie list, but included in his lists of fossils from Enorimte 
® * Hill, Stan well, Kariboe Creek, and Yarrol = Gympie Beds. 
