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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12893642863).jpg of <br> some South African fossils sent <br> him by M de Launay ; <br> Eine sedimentary deposits <br> grey white or red in colour <br> were traversed in sinking the <br> shafts and in these the numerous <br> plant-remains were found The <br> material in which they were <br> preserved was for the most part <br> so soft and crumbly that many <br> very fine specimens were lost <br> when the rock was exposed to <br> the atmosphere <br> At the depth attained in the <br> shaft about 80 feet coarse gritty <br> sandstone was intersected for <br> the last 6 or 8 feet and this was <br> found to rest upon the tilted <br> edges of the Upper Quartzite- <br> and-Shale Group containing <br> conglomerates which are iden- <br> tified as belonging to the <br> Table Mountain Sandstone Series <br> Upper Devonian <br> As these rocks crop out all <br> round the small patch of hori- <br> zontal shale and sandstone in <br> which the fossils were found <br> this latter is undoubtedly an <br> outlier detached from the main <br> body of the Molteno Beds ” <br> which lies about 12 miles south- <br> east ” by ordinary subaerial <br> denudation <br> No 3 Vereeniging <br> This place a small township <br> lies about 30 miles due south <br> of Johannesburg on the northern <br> bank oftheVaal River The main <br> trunk-line of railway connecting <br> the Cape Colonial seaports with <br> the mining centre of Johannes- <br> burg passes through Vereeniging <br> and the coal-mine from which <br> the greater quantity of fuel- <br> supply for the railway is derived <br> lies about mile west of the <br> township 36029109 111130 51125 Page 312 Text 53 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029109 1897 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 53 1897 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36029109 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029109 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-03 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12893642863 2015-08-26 17 57 59 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1897 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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