Consolidated Gold Fields (Australia) Pty. Anglo American Corporation (Australia) Ltd. Marsden University of Melbourne April, iiiĥ PREFACE TO ORIGINAL HANDBCOK This Handbook has been prepared as a guide to the Section C excursions held during the 39th Congress of ANZAAS at Melbourne in January, It provides a new account of the geology of the excursion areas and thus of most of the geologically important areas in Victoria The Handbook has been made possible through donations towards the cost of publication by a number of companies and we acknowledge with thanks the generosity of Aberfoyle Tin N. viii is of portion of the relief model of Australia prepared in the School of Geology, University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor E. The illustrations from early publications of the Geological Survey of Victoria are reproduced with kind permission of the Director. We also acknowledge with thanks the valuable assistance received from Mesdames L. The School of Metallurgy of the University of Melbourne and the Geological Survey of Victoria cooperated in the preparation of the Second Edition.

In addition to the acknowledgements recorded in the preface to the original Excursions Handbook we are pleased to acknowledge the continued support of the School of Geology, University of Melbourne, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Continuing demand has led us to rearrange and revise the Regional Guide, as well as to enlarge it by the addition of a new chapter on the geology of the Melbourne district.

The first edition of the 'Regional Guide to Victorian Geology' was a revised version of the handbook.

School of Geolo8Y» iiĤ PREFACE This volume was originally prepared as the handbook for the nineteen geology excursions forming part of the 39th Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Melbourne in January, It provided an overall review of the geology of Victoria, and a new account of the geology of important areas other than the Grampians for which an excellent description had been published as Memoir Z5 of the Geological Survey of Victoria. ISBN O X Available from the University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. Registered in Australia for transrnission by post as a book. Marsden 1968, School of Geology, University of Melbourne, Publication No. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research criticism, or review, as perrnitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written perrnission of theeditors. Printed, collated and bound in Australia by Hollyoak Manufacturing Company, Melbourne, for the School of Geology, University of Melbourne. Cover design by Stuart Crluth, Technology Section, Education University of Melbourne. School of Geology, University of Melbourne 1973 Second Editionģ First published 1968 Second edition 1973 Wholly set up in Australia by the editors. 1 Regional Guide to Vi&orian Geology Edited byj, McAndrew and M.A,H.MarsdenĢ Regional Guide to Victorian Geology Edited by John MCAndrew Division of Mineralogy, CS I R 0 and Marcus A.H.Marsden School of Geology, University of Melbourne.

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