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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY AND SHIPPING.
BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS.
REPORT No. 1947/16.
PRELIMINARY NOTES. ON ROCK. SAMPLES FROM,
TirE' NORTHERN FLINDERS' RANGE AREA.
by
I. Crespin. CommonweSlth Palaeontolog1st.
CANBERRA,
A.C.T.
4th December •. ~.
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TlIS P9RTJmQ lkllWiRS RANGE AREA. R.p' ito. 194706.
A ~.llm1Qary m1ol'opalaeon~olog1oal exam1natloo bas been made r4 sa. ~ the samples aubm1 tted b7 the l"roma Broken 8111 Co. i~'tl'. Ltd., on NOTODb81' 31'4, 1947, trolD tbe Nortbel'n Flinders Range area with the View to giTlng assistance to the reoonnaissance work now i 0 progress.
The samples e.xaDttned are 115, 116, 118, 122 and 125.
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67, 70, 102, 113, 114,
All these sample.. COQta1 Q Gd.orotoBsl1a wbiob are represented by areDaoeows and b;ValiDe fore.m1n1tera aad ostracoda. The arenaoeous foram1rl1.tera ooour 1. the butt ooloured aDd 11a>n1 tio sbalee at Nos. 67, 70, 102, 113, 114, 115, 116 and 122. TbEr.I are OOUIDOD 1n s~ ot \be samples but are 8eoer8117 poorl¥ preserye4 and 01'usbe4. The _ali De forms and the ostracoda are restricted to the f#e'3 oarbonaoeous shales of Nos. 118 and 125. The t ..o foramln1feral assemblages are obaraoterlstl0
ot surt'e.oe and subsurfaoe depoel ts of Lower Oretaoeous age throughout the Great Arteslan Bas1n.
some of the spec1es tlgUl'ea. b7 the writ. in her paper Lower CretaeeoWi PoramlD1f'l'a .trOll Bore. 1n the Grea~ J\rteslan Basln, liorthern New :Joath \ialee" (1944) bave been n30a.
reoognised.
They lnalu4e:-
W 1 OObrlgmgl4e8 gbrmmppi TEooh'mm1 DA rgiSAtt1
Jpiroplect,. ga cusbmuBi l.e otl0 l111 na suqderb00kae gal a MN'gloy,liga SubQ[ctag,a A more detailed list of the foraminiferA and ostracoda will be given in tbe final l'epar".
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QQSP9Q1PalSh i'alMontologist.
