Report on the geology and gold-fields of otago


Report on the geology and gold-fields of otago

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ABSTRACT THE Southern Province of New Zealand is one of great interest from the variety of its physical features which faithfully indicate the wide range of geological formations of which it


is built up. The snow-clad ridge of “The Southern Alps,” with numerous pointed peaks and serrated ridges, runs along the western coast, and is penetrated by deep of “sounds,” or fiords, not


unlike some of those on the west coast of Norway. Mount Aspiring, at the northern border of the province, reaches an elevation of 9,940 feet, while several other points rise upwards of


8,000 feet above the sea, forming altogether a grand background, from which the rest of the country descends towards the eastern coast in a series of rolling downs, diversified by deep


valleys and numerous lakes. The rivers are remarkable for, in several cases, and with much perversity, cutting through ridges, and crossing the boundaries of the formations, in a way that


not long ago would have been attributed to the effects of mighty “convulsions of Nature,” but which the physical geologist is now able to account for on very different principles. The


Southern Alps contain glaciers which, as Mr. Hutton shows very clearly, extended considerably beyond their present bounds on two occasions in later Tertiary times, and to this agency he


refers the excavation of the rock basins which now constitute nearly all the lakes of the hilly districts. An excellent view of this chain of snowy mountains will be found in Dr. von


Hochstetter's elaborate work on New Zealand; in which Mount Cook, Mount Tasman, and the adjacent mountain giants are seen towering to an elevation of 13,200 feet above the waters of the


ocean. _Report on the Geology and Gold-fields of Otago_. By F. W. Hutton G. H. F. Ulrich, F.G.S., &c. (Dunedin: Mills, Dick, and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co., 1876.) Access through


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