Geological Formations, 
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Colours used on 
Map. 
(e) Burnt Umber. 
(f) French Blue. 
(a) Light Neutral 
tint. 
2. Sandstones of Bacchus Marsh, containing Ganga • 
mopteris angustifolia (McCoy), Gangamopteris spatulata 
(McCoy), and Gangamopteris obliqua (McCoy), representing 
the Mesozoic Takhir beds of the Indian coal-fields. 
Paljeozoic. 
(e) Upper Pakuozoic, 
1. (? Carboniferous) Massive sandstones, in which fossils 
have not yet been found, Grampians. 
2. Thick-bedded sandstones, coarse conglomerates, 
purple quartzose grits, grey flags, micaceous shales, and 
red or grey rubbly mudstones, with occasional interbedded 
layers of porphyry and melaphyre, representing the lava 
flows of the period altered by. chemical action. The 
country between the Macalister and Mitchell Rivers, 
including the Avon River watershed in North Gippslaud; 
Mansfield; Mount Tambo, and small tracts eastward from 
Mount Canu in the south-eastern portion of Victoria, and 
on the Mitta Mitta River. 
Fossils. — Lepidodendron Australe (McCoy), Archatop - 
teris Howitti (McCoy), Cordaites Australis (McCoy). The 
two latter are considered by Professor McCoy as indi- 
cative of Upper Devonian, the first being of Lower 
Carboniferous aspect. 
(f) Devonian. 
Devonian limestones and calcareous beds, Mitta Mitta 
River, Bindi, Buchan; Micaceous sandstones and shales, 
Tabberabbera; Quartz-porpliyry, felstone, &c., beneath or 
interbedded with the Buchan beds. 
Fossils. — Spirifera leecicostata , Favosites Goldfussi , 
Chonetes Australis (McCoy) Fhragmoceras subtrigonum 
(McCoy), Asterolepis ornatu var. Australis (McCoy). 
(g) Upper Silurian, 
Soft fine-grained micaceous sandstones and claystones, 
Melbourne; blue, grey, and yellow sandstones, mudstones, 
and calcareous breccias, Yarra basin; bluisli-grey mica- 
ceous mudstones and sandstones, near lvilmore; Sand- 
stones, schists, shales, limestones, conglomerates, Cape 
Liptrap, Waratah Bay, Stockyard Creek, and Turton’s 
Creek, South Gippslaml, and the country between the La 
Trobe and Macalister Rivers in North Gippslaud, Wood’s 
Point, Alexandra, and Heathcote; Enerinital limestones, 
Thomson River, Tyers River, and near Mansfield. 
Fossils. — Orthoccras Ibex (Sow.); O. Jhdlatnm (Sow.); 
O. capiUosum (Bar.); O. littearc (Munst.); O. strialo- 
punctatum (Munst.); Cardium Gippslandicum (McCoy); 
Pctrastcr Smi/thii (McCoy); Urasterclla Selwyni (McCoy); 
Phacops caudatus (Brong.); Ph. fecund us (Bar.); Lichas 
Australia (McCov); Homalonotus Harnsom (McCoy); 
and other Trilobitcs of various species ; LepUena rhom- 
boidalisy Spirifera plicateUa t Spirigcra reticularis , Trcma- 
tospira lioplcura (McCoy); Trctnatospiru formosa (Hall); 
Pentamerus Australis (McCoy); Graptolites priodon (Rs.); 
Graptolites ( Ilctiolites ) Australis (McCoy). 
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