about the minor irregularities. Queenstown, The brick-red shales are regularly bedded, in fact appear to be too regularly bedded to be of strictly continental origin. While the sandy muds are not clearly marked yet the bedding is regular among type of marine sedimentation. However I did not see a sign of bottom churning in these very shelly silo de- posits. The deep red character is evidence of superb oxidation and no one has yet seen a fossil in this again. On the other hand there are thin zones that are more sandy than usual and along these the pressure consolidated crusts spread, changing the zone from 1 to 3