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KUIinjOK NANSK.N. 



M.-N. Kl. 



60. 



Slran.l:lal in tr.,nl ol llu- hi,t;h mountains on Rckslcren l.slan.l and TyMics l.land do ihu right). 



(Aug. 27, 1911)- 



oaI)I)r(). TIktc arc indications of a kind of shore lcdi,-e at altitudes of 

 between 45 and 55 metres above sea-level. A well developed shore-line 

 was observed at about (lO metres (measured with the aneroid barometer), 

 which is more or less continuous with the hii,diest level oi a fairly ex- 

 tensive plane. Th.ere is, however, also a verv low level of less than 20 m. 

 above the sea, which is rjistinctly inarked on the ].oint north of Leirvik 

 harbour (Fit,-. 62) and on the islands outside. The reck is here phyllite. 

 A strandfiat with ab.,ut the same hci-ht is als(. founrl further eastwards 

 in Hardant^er Fjord. 



Hardanger Fjord and Bømmel Fjord. 



In Hardanger Fjord the strandfiat is developed in the same way 

 as in Sogne Fjord, though at a perhaps slightly higher level. It is con- 

 spicuous at the points of the promontories and peninsulas along l)Oth sides 



Fi-. 61. East coast of Stord Island, north of I^t-irvik. lAug. 28, 191 1. 1 



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