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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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GEOLOGICAL MAP OF the: area between KLERKSDORPand THE DE-KAAP VALLEY SHOWING THE RELATION OF THE G0LD~FIELD5 to elach other and toTHE HIGH-LEVEL COAL-FIELD ofTHE TRANSVAAL, BY W. H .Penni NG, F.G.S. SCALE. OF ENGLISH MILES. il 1 OEOLOOY OF THE SOUTHKHN TRANSVAAL. 4015 folded and necessarily altered to an enormous extent, liegurdinji;the fossils in the coal-bearing Upper-Karoo scries, Ihe ferns werenot those of the Carboniferous age; and the Lepidodendroid fossilnow exhibited l)y a Pellow of the Society probably came from the out-crop of some older rocks near that of the Upper-Karoo beds. Thefossil fishes obtained by G. W. Stow and others from these beds havebeen described as related to Triassic forms. Mr. Smith Woouwaku recognized the fish in Mr. Pennings photo-graph as Seviionotus capensis^ described in the Societys Journal,vol. xliv. p. 138. Among associated fish-remains Chifhrolepis alsooccurs. If such evidence be of any stratigraphical value, the UpperKaroo is homotaxial with the

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