ERA. | EPOCHS IN | EQUIVALENT STRATA | EUROPE. | IN AUSTRALIA. -------------+---------------+------------------------------- | HOLOCENE | Dunes, Beaches, and Shell-beds | | now forming. | | | PLEISTOCENE | Raised Beaches, River Terraces, | | Swamp Deposits | | with Diprotodon, Cave | | Breccias, Helix Sandstone. | | CAINOZOIC | PLIOCENE | Upper.--Estuarine beds of or | | bores in the Murray basin, TERTIARY | | Marine beds of (Note 1). | | Limestone Creek, Glenelg | | River, Vic. (Werrikooian). | | | | Lower.--Kalimnan red | | sands (terrestrial) and | | shell marls (marine) of | | Victoria, Deep Leads | | (fluviatile) in part, Upper | | Aldingan of South | | Australia. -------------+---------------+------------------------------- CAINOZOIC | MIOCENE | Deep Leads in part: Leaf-beds or | | of Bacchus Marsh, TERTIARY | | Dalton and Gunning. (Continued). | | Janjukian Series of C. | | Otway, Spring Creek, and | | Table Cape. Batesford | | Limestone. Polyzoal | | Rock of Mt. Gambier and | | the Nullarbor Plains. | | Older Cainozoic of Murray | | basin, Lower Aldingan | | Series of S. Australia, | | Corio Bay and | | Bairnsdale Series. | | | OLIGOCENE | Shelly clays and leaf-beds | | of the Balcombian Series | | at Mornington; also | | Shell-marls and clays | | with Brown Coal, Altona | | Bay, and lower beds at | | Muddy Creek, W. Vict. | | | EOCENE | Probably no representatives. -------------+---------------+------------------------------- | | MESOZOIC | CRETACEOUS | Upper.--Leaf-beds of Croydon, or | | Q. Desert Sandstone, SECONDARY | | Q. Radiolarian Rock, N.