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Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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-lying strip at the base of the cliffs is araised rock platform—an uplifted incipient plain of marine denudation(Plate XXXV, and fig. 2, a) : the remaining portion—situated principally atthe seaward ends of the larger valleys opening into Porirua Harbour near itsentrance—has been formed by the progradation of the shore brought aboutby the deposition of a superabundance of coarse waste which has beendrifted down the outer coast and into Porirua Harbour and has beenpiled up above sea-level, in the first instance by the action of the waves,and raised still farther by the earth-movement responsible for the upliftof the adjacent stretches of shore-platform of wave-planed rock. (2.) The Raised Shore-platform,(a.) On the Mainland. The raised shore-platform (Plate XXXV, and fig. 2, a) is one of the mostinteresting, and in some places also the most conspicuous, of the shore-line features of Porirua Harbour and of the neighbouring coast. The earth- Trans. N.Z. Inst.. Vol L1II. Plate XXXV.
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o u «« c c5 ^j §2 ,53 MSfcj © •^ -3 tj d5 *© O TO o -d X ace p. 745. J Adkin.—Porirua Harbour. 149 movement responsible for its present position above high-tide level wasundoubtedly the uplift that affected the eastern shore of Cook Strait duringthe 1855 earthquake, as shown by several lines of evidence : (1.) Thesimilarity of the raised shore-platform and the raised beach-ridges ofthe Porirua area to the raised shore-platform fringing the shores of Mira-mar Peninsula at Port Nicholson, and to the 9 ft. beach (Crawford, 1869.pp. 320-21: Aston, 1912, p. 209; and writers observations) of Turakirae Head,respectively; in the latter localities these features have always been attri-buted to the uplift of 1855. (2.) The historical proof of the shallowing a Raised sKore --plaljoy Old Ridije-vemnavit RavstdSta of TnaS-Jui-a bea-ch- Slrata. * *-«.dg< Cliff Former principal outleto/ Taupo Creek.,now closed.

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