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Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Diagrams, and figures of the organic remains

1845; Geological Society of London; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1144/gsl.jgs.1845.001.01.102

2058-105X

Paul Edmund Strzelecki, D. T. A.,

Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

II. Physical description of New South wales and Van Diemen's Land, accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Diagrams, and figures of the organic remains . By P. E. de Strzelecki. 8vo. pp. 462. This work by the Count de Strzelecki is the result of five years of continual labour occupied in travelling, on foot, for a distance of as much as 7000 miles, through various parts of the eastern shores of the vast island-continent of Australia and in the island of Van Diemen's Land. The main object of the author's visit to New South Wales, he states to have been to examine its mineralogy; but the materials he met with for this purpose were too few and too little important to satisfy his curiosity, and he turned therefore to the wider field of investigation presented by its geological structure, and has endeavoured by a map, coloured in a certain sense geologically, by a number of sections, and by description, to communicate information on this subject.