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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889817660).jpg GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND <br> 195 <br> south the mountains bulge out somewhat in the shape of a dumb- <br> bell the handle being bordered on the west by the plains of West- <br> land and on the east by the plains of Canterbury The southern <br> end of the dumbbell is also notched by the plains of Southland <br> The mountains are formed by a main anticlinal curve fig 1 a a <br> running from the neighbourhood of Lake Wanaka in Ota'go in a <br> north-easterly direction to Tasman's Bay and forming the ge-anti- <br> clinal of New Zealand The greater part of the west side of this <br> anticlinal has been removed by denudation in Westland so that the <br> Fig 1 ” The South Island of Mw Zealand <br> / - <br> Plains <br> Anticlinals <br> Synclinals <br> ” <br> Fatilt <br> X <br> Mt'Cook <br> ridge of the Alps no longer coincides with the axis of the curve but <br> forms part of its south-easterly face On the Canterbury side the <br> rocks are thrown into three broad synclines fig 1 6 c cZ sepa- <br> rated by two anticlines fig 1 e f running more or less at right <br> angles to the main anticKne The most southerly of these syn- <br> clines 6 goes from the neighbourhood of Palmerston in Otago in <br> a northerly direction to Lake Pukaki ; the second c from the <br> Gawler Downs in South Canterburj in a westerly direction to the <br> junction of the Havelock and Clyde rivers in the Upper Pangitata ; <br> the third d runs from Waiau in a northerly direction to the <br> neighbourhood of the Wairau Gorge in ITelson Province The 37047047 114009 51125 Page 195 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047047 1885 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37047047 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047047 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889817660 2015-08-26 04 54 34 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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