Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . er and Mohaka. The results,though necessarily imperfect and incomplete, show that thedistrict, though offering examples of Mesozoic and even ofPaleozoic rocks, is essentially a Tertiary and Post-tertiary one,and offers ample testimony of vast movements, which have beenbrought about mainly by the action of water. According to thegeological map published with the New Zealand Handbookby Dr. (now Sir James) Hector, the Director of the GeologicalSurvey, a large proportion of the rocks exposed along the coastbetween Tologa Bay and Cape Turn
Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . er and Mohaka. The results,though necessarily imperfect and incomplete, show that thedistrict, though offering examples of Mesozoic and even ofPaleozoic rocks, is essentially a Tertiary and Post-tertiary one,and offers ample testimony of vast movements, which have beenbrought about mainly by the action of water. According to thegeological map published with the New Zealand Handbookby Dr. (now Sir James) Hector, the Director of the GeologicalSurvey, a large proportion of the rocks exposed along the coastbetween Tologa Bay and Cape Turnagain belong to what areknown in this country as the Cretaceo-tertiary formation. Theolder Tertiaries, known as Eocene and Miocene, are shown onthe map to lie immediately to the west of the so-called Cretaceo-tcrtiaries, both to the south and north of Napier. BetweenTiwhinui, a few miles to the south of the Mohaka River mouth,and Cape Kidnapper in the Hawkes Bay river system, the frimsa#i<ra$ fcui grnlmjti ftt$Hfute, Vol. XX. js ? SCALE OF zo so -Jo —I XM del To UlustiaU Tfe^ byXXiJ] Hill.—On Distribution of Pumice. 297 surface rocks belong to the later Tertiary or Pliocene and thePost - tertiary formations. These later deposits cover anenormous area inland, extending from Napier in a north-westdirection beyond Pohui, on the Taupo Eoad, and in a west andsouth-west direction through the Heretaunga and KuataniwhaPlains, and thence onward and through the Seventy-mile Bushas far as the Manawatu Gorge. Similar rocks cover a largeextent of country in the Poverty Bay District, and extend inlandfrom Gisborne in a south-west direction as far as Te Kapu,near Wairoa or Clyde, although not so shown on the geologicalmap. From specimens of fossils lately received from , sheep-farmer, who resides in the middle basin of theMohaka Biver, it would seem that similar young rocks arelargely developed in that district also ; and hence a continuousbe
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