. The geology of the Oamaru district, North Otago (Eastern Otago division). SW Fig. 3.—Section feom Cape Wanbeow to Rifle Butts. a. Pleistocene silts. /. Yellowish-brown coralline tufis b. Raised beach, 12 ft. (/. Well-bedded tufis. .c. Awamoan beds. /. TufEs with no bedding. d. Hutchinsonian beds. k. Basaltic djke and fault. e. Ototaran beds. the sea-measured The relationship of the Waiarekan tuffs to the Ototaran is well seen incliffs near Shirley Creek, 500 yards north of the Rifle Butts (see Fig. 3 andsection at Rifle Butts, Plate IV). Section at Boatmans Harbour. The relationship of the p
. The geology of the Oamaru district, North Otago (Eastern Otago division). SW Fig. 3.—Section feom Cape Wanbeow to Rifle Butts. a. Pleistocene silts. /. Yellowish-brown coralline tufis b. Raised beach, 12 ft. (/. Well-bedded tufis. .c. Awamoan beds. /. TufEs with no bedding. d. Hutchinsonian beds. k. Basaltic djke and fault. e. Ototaran beds. the sea-measured The relationship of the Waiarekan tuffs to the Ototaran is well seen incliffs near Shirley Creek, 500 yards north of the Rifle Butts (see Fig. 3 andsection at Rifle Butts, Plate IV). Section at Boatmans Harbour. The relationship of the pillow-lava to the overlying fossiliferous beds at this placeis shown in Plate II, and in Fig. 4, which shows the beds on a larger a. Slope deposit. b. Pleistocene silts. c. Raised beach, 12 ft. d. Tachylitic Basahic breccia in tuff matrix ; 2 ft. to 4 ft. e. Greenish tuffs passing upward into bujEE-coloured tuffs of fine texture ; 4 Green tuffs with broken shells and Yellowish-brown tufaceous limestone, from 3 ft. to 3 ft. 3 in. d7 df^ Pig. 4.—Section across Boatmans Harbouk.(Scale, horizontal and vertical, 30 ft. = 1 in.) k. Blue thin-bedded mudstonc; at base interbedded with two thin bands of hard limestone each 2 in. to 4 in. thick, the lower pebbly and Dirty-brown calcareous tuffs; 15ft. to Current - bedded tuffs, greyish-green in colour, coarse in lower 5 ft., finer in higher 4 ft. ; 9 Basaltic pUlow-lava, with fossiliferous limestone between pillows. The pillow-lava shows a thickness of 85 ft. or 90 ft. It was described as suchby the author* in 1905, and this was the first record of the occurrence of thispeculiar lava structure in New Zealand. The pi
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