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LIMESTONE AT ARIl^GA, NEAR PORT FAIRY. 
^By W. H. Fergiison, Assistant Field Geologist. 
The limestone dealt with in this report is situated on the Aringa 
estate, about 5 miles westerly from Port Fairy. 
Scale 
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Fig. 36. —Plan of Portion of Parish of Aringa, showing Limestone Deposits. 
A large quantity of limestone of varying quality extends in a wes¬ 
terly direction from Port Fairy. Some of it is dune limestone of 
recent to Post Pliocene age, and other parts consist of fossiliferous 
marine limestone, probably of Jan Jukian or Miocene age. The dune 
stone is mostly light, soft and porous, and white in colour. The Miocene 
limestone is in places dense, solid, and pale-brown or creamy in 
colour; in other places it is lighter and more friable. The dune lime¬ 
stones appear to rest on a flow of newer volcanic basalt, but the rela¬ 
tion of the Miocene limestone to the other formations of the locality was 
not investigated. 
