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Geological and other Reports

List of Rocks collected during the Expedition

List of Rocks collected during the Expedition.

Whanganui river

  • Igneous boulders—Products of Tongariro and Ruapehu.

    1.

    Greenstone with crystals of hornblende.

    2.

    Lava with felspar crystals.

    3.

    Lava with glassy felspar and pyrdzeno.

    4.

    Lava with pyroxene and white felspar.

    5.

    Porphyritic felstone, with conchoidal fracture.

    6.

    Do. with reddish felspar.

    7.

    Felstone.

    8.

    Tufa.

    9.

    Pumice.

    10.

    Obsidian.

    11.

    Vesicular lava.

    12.

    Felstone porphyry.

    13.

    Hornblende rock.

    14.

    Laterite.

    15.

    Basalt.

  • Boulders of crystalline sandstones and slates—

    1.

    Siliceous slate with veins of quartz.

    2.

    Quartzite.

    3.

    Altered grit,

    4.

    Conglomerate.

    5.

    Crystalline sandstone.

    6.

    Quartz.

  • Tertiary—

    • Sandstones, indurated clays, shales, limestone, drift gravel, lignite.

Bed of Waipare, tributary of Whanganui

  • Silicious slate with quartz veins.

Rangitikei

  • Silicious slates and crystalline sandstone gravel with a few boulders of igneous rocks.
  • Tertiary—

    • Sandstones and indurated clays, drift gravel, lignite.

Manawatu Gorge

1.

Silicious slate.

2.

Do, with quartz veins.

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3.

Altered slate.

4.

Jasper.

5.

Jasper and quartz.

6.

Crystalline sandstone.

Tertiary—

  • Sandstones and indurated clays, lignite.

Otaki

1.

Silicious slates and crystalline sandstone gravel.

2.

Slate.

3.

Carbonate of lime (veinstone)

East Coast country, valley of Upoko Ngaruru

  • Igneous, plutonic.

    • Hornblendic rock (not “in situ.”)