Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Fig. 3.—Facets at Petone Fig. 4.—Long Valley ; View from Ngaio towards Karori. Cotton.—Notes on Wellington Physiography. 251 Divides in the Tongue Point cycle have in some cases been reduced toa fairly low altitude. Where they stand only 600 ft. to 800 ft. abovepresent sea-level they have been rounded and their slopes graded, androck outcrops are few. Higher-standing ridges are more rugged, withrock outcrops and sharpened summits, except where they are flat-topped,and forms of the Kaukau cycle remain. The broad upland feature
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Fig. 3.—Facets at Petone Fig. 4.—Long Valley ; View from Ngaio towards Karori. Cotton.—Notes on Wellington Physiography. 251 Divides in the Tongue Point cycle have in some cases been reduced toa fairly low altitude. Where they stand only 600 ft. to 800 ft. abovepresent sea-level they have been rounded and their slopes graded, androck outcrops are few. Higher-standing ridges are more rugged, withrock outcrops and sharpened summits, except where they are flat-topped,and forms of the Kaukau cycle remain. The broad upland features in fig. 3 belong to tfie Tongue Point Ohariu and other streams, however, shown in the figure have beenrevived, and reaches have been graded and widened with the formationof flood-plains. These belong to the present cycle. The Present Cycle. Forms of the present cycle comprise the steep lower slopes of valley-sides and the flood-plains developed along portions of the courses of thelarger streams. The Makara-Ohariu system may still be retained as anexample (figs. 3 and 4). T
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