46 Sedimentary Formations 
An opinion lias been adopted that the Mesozoic fossils from 
Queensland, both those described by Mr. Moore and these by 
Mr. Etheridge, were in mere drifted nodules. Mr. Taylor 
assures me that such is not the case with the latter, and I long 
ago gave a section of the beds at Wollumbilla, proving as in the 
York Peninsula, that the nodular masses were derived from a soft 
shale, being in fact concretions. If they have been drifted they 
have not travelled far. 
Mr. Taylor (Han ns Report, p. 13) seems to have found the 
shelly deposit before mentioned on “ a flat-topped Carboniferous 
range,” (on 9 Sept.. 1872), and by a report of April, 1S75, from 
Cook Town, it appears that a fine seam of bituminous coal has 
been discovered at the junction of Oaky Creek and the Endea¬ 
vour River, 20 miles from Cook Town ; but from the determina¬ 
tion of Mr. Carruthers, this coal (confirming, however, Mr. 
Taylor’s statement) is not of the Glossopteris age. The coal of 
the latter series is not known to extend further north than 
20° 35' south. 
In Mr. Dalrymplo’s Report of his Exploration on the “ .North¬ 
east coast of Queensland” ( Brisbane , 1S73, p. 20.) that enter¬ 
prising observer states that the flat-topped ranges and mountains 
about the Endeavour River have “ red sandstone escarpments,” a 
feature that assimilates it somewhat to the “ New Red” or 
Triassic formation. 
Tertiary Rocks. 
Kainozoic of Duncan. 
Throughout the whole of Eastern Australia, including New 
South Wales and Queensland, no Tertiary marine deposits have 
been discovered. There are, however, in various places of New 
South Wales patches of plant deposits which, according to the 
frequent notices of geologists, may bo inferred to some period of 
the Tertiary epoch. A silicified sandstone, or quartzite of this kind, 
full of impressions of ferns and leaves of trees, but not known 
to be now living, occurs at Jerrawa Creek not far from 1 ass. It 
is probably Miocene. On the summit of the Cordillera, near 
Nundle, above the Peel River Diggings, occurs a ferruginous bed 
full of leaves. On the Richmond River occurs a white magnesite, 
full of yellowish impressions of leaves. At Ke-woug, in the 
county of Gowan, there is a bluish deposit of fine aluminous 
matU r with black impressions. Prom a depth of GO feet in a 
shaft near Bungonia, a pale yellowish white deposit with similar 
impressions was brought up ; and on the summit of a il made” 
hill, above Kiandra Gold Eield, at a height of 4,000 feet above 
the sea, and in a region now partly covered wit enow many 
