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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889809658).jpg GEOLOGY OP NEW ZEALAND <br> 203 <br> longing to the system in boulders in the Waitaki ; but the rocks <br> have not yet been detected in situ The southern development of <br> the system is on the coast between the rivers Clutha and Mataura <br> passing inland through the Hokanui Mountains to beyond lit <br> Hamilton This is the best locality for making out the series of <br> rocks forming the system a work which has been ably accomplished <br> by Mr S H Cox f <br> The rocks are principally blue slates and green or brown sand- <br> stones with beds of conglomerate sometimes passing into breccias <br> There are no limestones In the lower series beds of greenstone <br> ash occur and in the upper thin seams of coal It is a littoral <br> formation plant-remains being found throughout The thickness <br> has been estimated both by Mr Cox and by myself at between <br> 20 000 and 25 000 feet in Southland <br> This system is undoubtedly unconformable to the Maitai System <br> but it not easy to get good sections to prove this The best is <br> perhaps in Southland at the Takitimu Mts where I reported an <br> Fig 3 ” Section from Oreti Eiver to the Tcikitimu Mountains <br> Distance 12 miles <br> N E s w <br> Orgti Haycock Takitimu <br> Eiver Hills Mt Hamilton Mts <br> d Maitai System <br> / Waipara System <br> e Hokanui System <br> g OamarvL System <br> unconformity in 1872 J and this has since been confirmed by <br> Mr Cox § fig 3 e In no place however is it known to rest on <br> the Maitai System <br> The Hokanui System forms the upper part of Dr von Haast's <br> Mt Torlesse formation It has been divided into a considerable <br> number of series all conformable to each other but distinguished <br> by their fossils The fossils however have not been described ; <br> and although it may very probably be true that all these series <br> will be found to be necessary at present it is impossible to recognize <br> them in the field and it therefore seems to me preferable to reduce <br> the series to three at the most The KaiMJcu Series forms the base <br> of the system ; but fossils are rare and I doubt much whether it can <br> Reports of Geological Survey 1881 p 77 <br> t Eep Geol Surv 1877-8 p 25 <br> t Eep Geol Surv 1871-2 p 103 <br> § Eep Geol Surv 1877-8 p 113 37047055 114009 51125 Page 203 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047055 1885 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37047055 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047055 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889809658 2015-08-26 04 52 05 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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