. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 38 AQUEOUS AGENCIES. The coast of Norway consists entirely of deep fiords alternating with jutting headlands of hardest rock several thousand feet high. Along this intricately-dissected coast there runs a chain of high, rocky. Fig. 31. islands, which in an accurate map is scarcely distinguishable from the coast itself, being separated only by narrow, deep fiords. Toward the northern part of the coast the crest of the Scandinavian chain seems to run directly along the jutting promontories of the coast-line, fo
. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 38 AQUEOUS AGENCIES. The coast of Norway consists entirely of deep fiords alternating with jutting headlands of hardest rock several thousand feet high. Along this intricately-dissected coast there runs a chain of high, rocky. Fig. 31. islands, which in an accurate map is scarcely distinguishable from the coast itself, being separated only by narrow, deep fiords. Toward the northern part of the coast the crest of the Scandinavian chain seems to run directly along the jutting promontories of the coast-line, for these headlands are the most elevated part of the country; in fact, in some parts it would seem that the original crest was at one time still farther west, along the line of coast-islands. If so, then the sea has not only carried away the whole western slope, but has broken through the main axis, leaving only these isolated rocky islands as monuments of its former position, and is even now carrying its ravages far inland on the eastern slope. In the case of Norway, however, and probably in case of nearly all bold, rocky coasts, the intricacy of the coast-line is not due wholly or even principally to the action of waves and tides, but also to other causes to which we shall refer hereafter. Transporting Power.—The transporting power of waves is immense- ly great, often taking up and hurling on shore masses of rock hundreds of tons in weight; but, being entirely confined to the coast-line, the dis- tance to which they carry is necessarily very limited. There are some instances, however, of materials carried to great distances by the inces- sant action of waves. Thus, according to Prof. Bache, coast-sand is carried slowly farther and farther south by the action of waves, and siliceous sand is found at Cape Sable on the extreme southern point of Florida, although the whole Florida coast as far as St. Augustine is composed of coral limestone alone. He accounts for this by supposi
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