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Geology and Physical Geography : 
Mr. Charles Wilkinson, Government Geologist of New South 
Wales, informs me that Giossop (crisis found in beds lying between 
layers which contain distinct Carboniferous (Palaeozoic) fossils, 
and has kindly furnished me with the subjoined table, showing 
the approximate relations of the Now South Wales and Victorian 
Mesozoic and Palaeozoic rocks. As Mr. Wilkinson’s classification 
is based upon long practical experience in both colonies, it is 
probably the most correct that can be arrived at. 
Mesozoic. 
i 
Victoria. 
Carbonaceous (? Oolitic) rocks 
of the Wannon, Cape Otway, 
Western Port, and South 
Gippsland. 
Tctniopteru 
New South Wales. 
Clarence River beds. 
Daintreei. 
No recognised equivalents. 
Wyanamatta beds. 
Bacchus Marsh Sandstones. 
Gangan 
Hawkesbury Sandstones. 
lopleris. 
o 
N 
O 
8 
Ph 
Permian. 
No equivalents. 
Upper Coal Measures of New- 
castle, containing Glossopteris, 
which does not occur in any 
beds above these. 
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P 
O 
u 
o 
4 
eS 
O 
No equivalents. 
Marine beds. Carboniferous 
fossils. 
Lower Coal Measures. 
Glossopteris and Phyllotheca . 
Lower Marine beds. Carbonifer- 
ous fossils. 
? Upper beds Avon Sand- 
stones. 
Lepidodendron beds. 
Devonian. 
Devonian. 
Upper Silurian. 
Upper Silurian. 
Equivalents of the New South Wales Carboniferous rocks may 
or may not have once covered portion of Victoria, but if they did 
every trace of them as surface rocks has since been removed. 
The only areas which they can possibly underlie are — 1st. The 
broad strip of Mesozoic ami Tertiary tracts in south-western 
Gippsland, from the Mitchell River to Western Port, between 
the coast line and the boundary of the Palaeozoic rocks. 2nd. 
Portion of the district, consisting of Mesozoic and Tertiary or 
Volcanic tracts, between Port Phillip and the Gleuelg. 3rd. The 
great Tertiary tract in the north-western part of the colony. 
