
PRIMARY OR PALAOZOIC ROCKS,—CASE IX, 43 
27. BANDED, FINE-GRAINED SAND- 
STONE. List No. Rb 46. 
One mile north of Greensborough 
Bridge, Plenty River, 4 sheet 
2 SE. 
With ferruginous, gritty veins on face 
of joints. 
28. MICACEOUS SHALE. 
List No. Rb 50. 
Creek west of Diamond Creek, 
29. BLUE, Stary SHALE. 
List No. Rb 53. 
Diamond Reef, Diamond Creek. 
80. BLUE, SLATY SHALE. 
List No. Rb 54. 
Same locality as the last. ` 
31. PINKISH-BROWN SHALE. 
List No. Rb 56. 
Same locality as the last. 
32 and 33. Lignr AND Dark 
Buiuisu-Grey SANDSTONE. 
Costerfield, near Heathcote. 
Forming walls of the antimony reefs; 
covered with dark markings, probably 
organic, 
34. PURPLE, RUBBLY SHALE. 
P List No. Rb 228. 
West of Mount Ida, near Heath- 
cote, 
It forms the walls of the dyke in 
which the mineral “ Selwynite” occurs, 
and has a porphyritic appearance. 
35. MOTTLED, FINE-GRAINED 
BRECCIA. List No. R 121. 
Whiting’s Reef, 7 miles north of 
Heathcote. 
36. Finn, Micaceous, CONCRE- 
TIONARY SANDSTONE. 
Moonee Ponds Creek. 3} sheet 1 
N.W. b 
37. BRECCIATED, FINE CONGLOME- 
RATE (Grit). 
Buchan Road, near Boggy Creek, 
Gippsland. 
Exceedingly hard and compact, the 
component materials being of a small 
size and closely packed. 
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38. COARSE CONGLOMERATE, 
Andersons Creek, Upper Yarra. 
39. BLUE, BRECCIATED CONGLO- 
MERATE. List No. Rb 55. 
Diamond Reef, Diamond Creek. 
Appears to be made up of rounded 
and angular pieces of blue, micaceous 
mudstone and sandstone, with iron 
pyrites plentifully scattered through it. 
40. SANDSTONE BRECCIA. 
Greenstone range, east of Lance- 
field. 4 sheet 5 S.E. 
Entirely composed of angular pieces 
of white, cherty rock in a ferruginous 
matrix. 
41. LIMESTONE. List No. Rd 3p 24. 
Yering Cave, Upper Yarra. 
A very handsome marble. (See No. 
55, “ Building Stones.””) Analysis :— 
Carbonate of lime ... see 92°60 
Y magnesia ... 0°36 
Ay -dron ... go Wp 
a manganese ... 0°48 
Silica andclay ... ayy ees 

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42 and 43. ALTERED SHALE. 
Map No. R 41. ` 
Greenstone range, east of Lance- 
field, 4 sheet 5 S.E. 
These shales occur flanking a green- 
stone range, and have undergone a high 
degree of metamorphism, converting 
them into jasper rock. 
44, QUARTZITE. List No. R 122. 
N.W. of Mount Ida, Heathcote. 
This specimen shows the rock in two 
stages—gritty and compact. It was 
supposed in the neighborhood of its 
occurrence to be limestone. 
45 and 46. DENSE, WHITE JASPER 
Rook (in part brecciated), 
Map No. Ra 31a. 
“ Marble Hill,” section 79, Chintin. 
4 sheet 6 N.E. 
This rock is the so-called “ Statuary 
Marble”! shown on old surveys of the 
above neighborhood. 
47. BANDED MUDSTONE. 
Map No. R 3. 
Moonee Ponds Creek, Broadmea- 
dows. } sheet 2 S.W. 
