Identifier: transactionsofro19200roya (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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hat which has allowed thebuilding of such typical barrier beaches as the somewhat complex one thatencloses the Katikati-Tauranga harbour, on the southward continuationof the east coast of Coromandel Peninsula. There is abundant evidencethat the waves of the open ocean have in that district removed a veryconsiderable strip of land in cutting back the present sea-cliffs. It is also to be observed that the depth of water off shore at the con-clusion of the major movement of subsidence noted was shallow whereverbarrier beaches have been built, for in such localities the earlier land-surface was invariably of low relief, often consisting of the flood-plainsof the now greatly diminished rivers, or of the flattish floors of their wide,late-mature valleys. The initiation of the building of the beaches isalmost certainly to be correlated with sub-recent uplift of a few feet, whichis demonstrated by uplifted shore-terraces, wave-cut platforms, sea-caves. Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. LI IT Plate XXII
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(H. Winkelmann, photo. Fig. 1.—The rugged, youthful, western coast of Great Barrier Island. View lookingnorth-north-west towards the entrance to Port Abercrombie. The sea-cliffs are cut in andesitic fragmentals.

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