New Zealand Nature Notes: Short Sketches of the Geology, Botany, Zoology, With Notes on Engineering-Works (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0259919152 ISBN 13: 9780259919155

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from New Zealand Nature Notes: Short Sketches of the Geology, Botany, Zoology, With Notes on Engineering-Works

The north-western boundary of the depression is a well-preserved fault-scarp (see p. But the remaining boundaries are embayed by submergence. The embayed eastern shore-line is traced along the half-submerged side of a prominent and steep-sided longitudinal ridge (fig. It has been cliffed by marine erosion, and still later prograded, with the formation of a cuspate foreland.

Along all the shore-lines initiated by the subsidence there are wave-cut cliffs of varying height according to the exposure. On the exposed outer (southward-facing) coast cliff-recession has taken place to a very considerable extent, truncating the ends of the half-submerged ridges, and large areas of cut platforms lie at thecliff-bases. Along this outer coast the shore-line of the depressed area is, or, rather, was before a small uplift which accompanied the earthquake of 1855, in an early mature stage of development, considerable modification of the initial embayed outline having resulted in part from the cutting-back of points and in part from bay-filling. A sand isthmus, which ties Miramar Peninsula, a former island, to the mainland, effects a decided smoothing of the initial outline (fig.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0259919152
• ISBN 13: 9780259919155
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 73