SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC ROCKS,—CASE XI. 
Case XI. 
CGARBONACEOUS—MIOCENE AND OLDER PLIOCENE. 

MESOZOIC. 
CARBONACEOUS. 
(Coal-bearing rocks of Victoria.) 
1. Grey SHALE. 
Queensferry, Deep Creek, Hurdy- 
gurdy, Western Port. 
Containing plants. 
9, LIGHT-GREY SANDSTONE. 
List No. Rb 62. 
Carew and Feehan’s license, Kil- 
cunda Run, Bass. 
From a shaft about 100 yards from 
outcrop of a coal seam, 18 inches thick, 
on coast. 
8. CONGLOMERATE, 
Barrabool Hills, Geelong. 4 sheet 
24 S.E. 
See Note after No. 21. 
With large pebble of greenstone. 
4, BRECCIATED SANDSTONE. 
List No. R (Fs 3). 
Cape Patterson, 
Containing plants. 
5. Spatutc IRON. 
Cape Patterson. 
Contains 34 per cent. of iron, equal 
to 70'4 per cent. of carbonate of iron. 
6. BROWN SHALE. 
Den Hills Creek, a tributary of 
the Wannon River. 
Contains plants. 
7. Fine CLAY-SHALE. 
Gladman’s Coal Prospecting Shaft, 
near the Moé. 
8. CONGLOMERATE Breccia. 
Den Hills. 
9. Ligur-BrowNn SHALE. 
Gladman’s Coal Prospecting Shaft, 
near the Moé. 
Containing plants. 
10. Save, with PLANTS. 
List No. R (Fc 16). 
1l and 12, Grey SHALES, with 
PLANTS., 
Queensferry, Deep Creek, Hurdy- 
gurdy, Western Port, — 
18. YELLOW SANDSTONE. 
Barrabool Hills, Geelong. $ sheet 
24 S.E. 
Containing impressions of leaves. See 
Note after No, 21. 
14. COARSE GRIT. 
Geelong, } sheet 24 S.E. 
15. FINE-GRAINED SANDSTONE. 
Same locality as the last. 
Note.—At Portarlington, on the Bellarine Peninsula, the Carbonaceous 
rocks come to the surface, and abound in broken fragments of Teniopteris. 
The sandstone was used in building the Portarlington mills; but it 
exfoliates rapidly, and is not a good or durable building material, 
16 and 17. SANDSTONE. 
Bacchus Marsh. 
l In 1862 quarries were opened near Bacchus Marsh, and a con- 
siderable quantity of this stone was sent to Melbourne, and used in the 
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