Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . alley. (See map, p. 311, and Plates XXII-XXIV.) The topography of the upper portion of Park Valley is undoubtedlyof glacial origin. The valley contains the most extensive and the best-preserved memorials of the erosion of glacier-ice, and therefore it has thedistinction of being the former site of the largest of the extinct glaciersof the Tararua Ranges. The general trend of the glaciated part of thevalley is west by south, but it is not straight; it runs in two curves—theupper bending southward, the lower northward. From the lower limitsof gl
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . alley. (See map, p. 311, and Plates XXII-XXIV.) The topography of the upper portion of Park Valley is undoubtedlyof glacial origin. The valley contains the most extensive and the best-preserved memorials of the erosion of glacier-ice, and therefore it has thedistinction of being the former site of the largest of the extinct glaciersof the Tararua Ranges. The general trend of the glaciated part of thevalley is west by south, but it is not straight; it runs in two curves—theupper bending southward, the lower northward. From the lower limitsof glacial erosion the valley turns south-south-west and south-east to itsjunction with the Waiohine-iti River. This part of Park Valley is narrowand gorged. Lofty ridges form the boundaries of Park Valley, and thehighest points of these—Mounts Thompson, Lancaster, and Dora, andArete Peak—encircle its head, and in the past formed the gathering-groundof the perennial snowfields which fed the old glacier. Trans. Inst., Vol. XLIV. Plate XXIII,. >3 HH Facep 325.] Trans. Inst., Vol. XLIV. Plate XXIV.
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