Identifier: geologyofprovinc00haas (find matches)
Title: Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand, a report comprising the results of official explorations
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Haast, Julius von, 1822-1887
Subjects: Geology Geology
Publisher: Christchurch, Printed at the "Times" Office
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Gorge of river Rakaia before it enter3 the Canterbury Plains.
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Gorge zi river Rakaj Canterbury and Westland. 209 separated only by a dam of fluviatile shingle thrown across it by theHarper. When descending the Eiver Wilberf orce, this phenomenon isvery conspicuous, even ten miles from the lake, which is apparentlyseparated only by a small strip of low level land from the river-bed,so that as the valley continues straight, does not narrow, and the turnof the river towards the Eakaia is concealed from our view, it seemsas though the Wilberforce were flowing into the lake, and the lowshingle deposit were simply its delta. In that portion of this Eeport in which I shall treat of the post-tertiary geology, I shall speak again of the five remarkable longitudinalvalleys or ancient glacier channels between the junction of the Avocawith the Harper and the main Eakaia, which have been formed duringthe Great Glacier Period of New Zealand, and in which a number oflakes and lagoons are situated, Lake Coleridge being by far the mostimportant, all the others b

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