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On the Nive Eiver, at the Eoyal Hotel, grey shales with “distinct plant* 
remains, accompanied by greyish-green sandstone and cone-in-cone limestone, dip S. 
atabout^lthe ^amho the country forms extensive 
here and there blocts of sandstone, soft and not very 
outside and green in the interior. The sandstone is pierced with Jmles at r 
angles to the bedding-planes. The holes occur too sporadically and are too deep to be 
-dbone te. .pp.ten%, >11 be.» calcrec™ ..d to 
films of half-an-inch to three inches of cone-in-cone limestone adhering to it. 
Nine miles down the Barcoo Eiver from Tamho, a calcareous sandstone 
was observed, crammed with Belemnites and other fossils, including Trigoma. An 
exactly similar rock was seen four miles further down the river. 
srlto Wow the Northampton Hotel, on the B.rcoo » stony r.dge on the 
right bent o{ the riv.r contained Urge end smell ronnd end .onndr.h 
In the centre ot each of the smeller nodnle. i. e shell, wh.le ‘I® 'to™" »' ^ 
nodules »e, tor the most pert, shepoles, messes ot red iron ochre. The sheU. me 
mainly Aucella liughenclenensis, Eth. ilmpafnne is seen on a 
Five miles below Northampton Downs Station, a white limestone is seen on a 
smaU hS tou In a gully on the west side of the hill is a section of grey shales and 
"etotone^ nndlrl^ the limestone of the hill-toin These .tret. b... e slight 
rBTtorhel»t"nrr:dh:i t..t deep end nnsnce.ssfnl, 
converted into carbonate of lime, and “““^e very readily. ■< Recovered 
Between Blackall and Aramac, seven miles from Skeleton Creek (in 
South” Blockl, brown sandstones dip at 5° to S. _ 
Two miles beyond Home Creek Station a cone-in-cone limestone is met with. 
At Coreena Wool-shed, twenty-one miles north of Saltern Creek, a drab-coloure 
'■“ni^i“rhTh?n ltro';t“Cto“'reo hnnd^.feot by th. 
Dmsioto Lrd. ' Eroni specimen, prcserred by Mr. S. Sh.rwood, end the mtometion 
that gentleman afforded me, I constructed the following section 
At 22 feet.— Yellow clay shale. 
„ 30 feet.— Yellow clay shale more sandy. 
„ 86 feet.— Two veins of gypsum. 
AK — -AlfpvTiatG slialc tiiid. fine sflndstouG. , 
47 Lt-Finc-grained permeable sandstone, felspathic, siliceous, and micaceous. 
Salt water in this. _ . r r, n- 
60 feet.-Clay shale, black films of plant-impressions and impressions of shell . 
”, 70 feet. Clay shales with shells and pyrites concretions. 
78 feet. — Clay shales, a little sandy. 
„ 83 feet.- Clay shale. 
„ 90 feet.-Clay shale. 
110 feet. Clay shale and a concretion, in part calcareous. 
„ 112 feet.— Clay shale. 
„ 128 feet.- Clay shale. 
132 feet.-Clay shales with shells (unaltered) and pyrites. 
„ 150 feet.— Sandy clay shales. 
153 feet.— Sandy clay shales. , 
176-8 feet.- Sandy clay shales, and a calcareous sandstone noduie. 
