50 SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC ROCKS.—CASR XI. 
Case XI. 
CARBONACEOUS—MIOCENE AND OLDER PLIOCENE 

MESOZOIC. 
CARBONACEOUS. 
(Coal-bearing rocks of Victoria.) 
1. Grey SHALE. 7. Fine CLAY-SHALE. 
Queensferry, Deep Creek, Hurdy- | , Gladman’s Coal Prosp 
gurdy, Western Port. near the Moé. 
Containing plants. 
ecting Shaft, 
L G s 8. CONGLOMERATE Brecora. 
2. LIGHT-GREY SANDSTONE. 7 
List No. Rb 62. Den Hills, 
Carew and Feehan’s license, Kil- 9. Licut-Brown SHALE. 
cunda Run, Bass. l y i : 
From a shaft about 100 yards from ee a i lei ospecting Shaft, 
? 4 ear oë. 
saree. of a coal seam, 18 inches thick, Containing plants, 
3. CONGLOMERATE. 10. SHALE, with Prants. 
Barrabool Hills, Geelong. 4 sheet List No. R (Fc 16), 
24 S.E. R 
See Note after No. 21. 11 and 12. Grey Swaxes, with 
With large pebble of greenstone, PLANTS. 
eens. Deep Creek, Hurdy- 
4, BRECCIATED SANDSTONE. Q p Western AN » Hurdy 
List No. R (Fs 3). 
Cape Patterson, 
ii 13. YELLOW SANDSTONE. 
Containing plants, Barrabool Hills, Geelong. 4 sheet 
5. Sparno Iron. Cc stash ites si fl S 
ontai ssions of leaves. See 
Cape Patterson, Note after No, 21. 
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. 
14. Coarse Grin. 
Geelong. 4 sheet 24 S.E. 
15. FINE-GRAINED SANDSTONE. 
Contains plants. 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. 
In 1862 quarries were opened near Bacchus Marsh, and a con- 
siderable quantity of this stone was sent to Melbourne, and used in the - 

