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Identifier: quarterlyjourna101854geol (find matches)
Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
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n in the mineral districts of South Australia; the pre-vailing rocks, and that on the surface of which the gold was deposited,were slates and gneiss. Sulivans Creek Diggings.—We commenced working at a placecalled Sulivans Creek, about two miles south from Sonora. Thediggings at this place were considered to be among the richest in thesouthern mines; but the greater part of the gold found there wassupposed (and with great probability) to have been swept down byfloods from Sulivans Gulch, which is a ravine, rich in gold, aboutone mile in length, following the strike of the rocks, and having thegneiss on one side and a white crystalline limestone on the other. The rock, however, which had originally contained and yieldedthe gold, was the gneiss, as a vein of auriferous quartz is traceable init, running along the top of the hill parallel with the ravine. Goldwas likewise found in the debris on the gneiss, as well as in the bedof the ravine; but none on the limestone. These rocks are all
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310 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (March 8, Fig. 2.—Section across Upper California from the Pacific to theSierra Nevada. Length about 70 miles. O & 3 a j o ** aUSc2 CO FQOHO o 05 Sierra Nevada.

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