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GEOLOGY OF NORTH GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA.

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The relations of these various formations to each other and their general relations to the mountain-chain, the Australian Alps, will be seen from the diagram-section, fig. 1. The Carbonaceous (Mesozoic) strata of South Gippsland have been added to complete the comparison, but will not be further considered, as they lie outside the district described.

Table of the Geological Formations of North Gippsland.
I. Lower Palæozoic.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1. Silurian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	(a) Auriferous slates and sandstones of rivers Crooked, Dargo, Wentworth, Nicholson, Bonang, Bendoc, and Delegete.
				(b) Metamorphic crystalline schists of the Omeo district.
				(c) Granites connected with (a) and (b).
II. Upper Palæozoic.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	2. Devonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	(d) Snowy-River porphyries; felstones and agglomerates of Wombargo.
				(e) Middle Devonian limestones of Buchan and Bindi; Tabberabbera shales.
				(f) Upper Devonian shales and limestones of Cowombut and Native-Dog Creek, Iguana-Creek and Maximilian-Creek beds, Snowy-Bluff and Mount-Tambo beds (?).
		3. Carboniferous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		(g) Sandstones of Avon river.

( 4. Miocene (h) Bairnsdale limestones.

5. Pliocene

Pleistocene and Recent

/ (i) Moitun-Creek beds ; sandstones and marls of Jemmy's Point and Lake Tyers.

(k) Dolerites and basalts of Dargo Hign Plains, Cobungra, Nunnyong, Gelan- tipy.

(I) Sand- and gravel-beds up to about 800 feet above sea-level ; clay terraces along the rivers and lakes; sand dunes, swamps, flooded lands, and river- gravels now forming.