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GEOLOGY OF NORTH GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA.
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the changed conditions of the land would no longer permit the spread of East-Australian forms of vegetation into the newly-emerged tract, but that it would be occupied by Victorian forms. The geologist of that time would then meet with a somewhat parallel case to that now seen in the difference between the Miocene fossil flora of Bacchus Marsh and the recent flora of Victoria.