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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961318793).jpg 1869 <br> KATTHAY CAPE-YOKK PENINSULA <br> 299 <br> Mount Bremer 409 ft see Map In all the porphyry presents <br> nearly the same lithological characters and consists of a matrix of <br> felspar enclosing numerous crystals of yellowish quartz Wear Cape <br> York it is laminated <br> Besting on the eastern and western flanks of this igneous axis are <br> thick and extensive strata of sandstone doubtless continuous like <br> Fig 1 ” Geological Majo of Cape York <br> Igneous pp <br> Post- I Sandstone l <br> tertiary Ironstone <br> Torres Stra i t <br> York I <br> i horac I <br> C Yorls <br> s Sextant J <br> the former with that found further south in New South Wales and <br> Queensland and prolonged with interruptions onward to Cape <br> Bathurst where it forms a bold cliff overhanging the sea as well as <br> the main mass of the adjacent Flinders group Here however it <br> becomes lost to reappear it is alleged in Papua resting on the <br> flanks of the igneous axis of that island itself a continuation of <br> that of Eastern Australia across the intervening strait which is only <br> 90 miles mde The nature of this sedimentary rock has long been <br> disputed the Bev W B Clarke and his followers maintaining that <br> it is Carboniferous Palaeozoic while Professor M Coy and his adhe- <br> rents believe it to be more recent and Oolitic Secondary <br> As yet no auriferous quartz or gold-bearing gullies or creeks <br> have been found in or near the mountain-axis of the Cape- York <br> peninsula like those of the richly productive regions in Victoria <br> VOL XXV PAKT I - – T 36103146 111288 51125 Page 299 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103146 1869 Geological Society of London NameFound Victoria NameConfirmed Victoria EOLID 34123 NameBankID 897688 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36103146 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103146 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12961318793 2015-08-26 15 56 08 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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