266 IKID'IJOK NANSnX. M.-N. Kl. 



shorc-ridj^'cs of pcMiKs. i/) rifler llic fij^aires in llie sccvjikI aiul tliird 

 colinniis indicate llial tlie liei,L;li1s are laken hy l(•\ellinJ,^ Otherwise the 

 heijTi'hts are measure'! l)y tlic ancrfjifl-l^aromcter. 



According" to this lahlc Tanner's observed hei^dits of the Tapes-line 

 //./ ill tlie inner end (;;" Tana l'"iord are 0.8 to 2.7 metres lower than the 

 computed heij^hts, wliilc at Store Molvik and Kvitnes, near the mouth of 

 the f jorfl, the ohserved heit^dits of the Tapes-line (IIA) are slightly higher 

 (-]- 0.3 to +0.7 metre) than tlie conijaited heights. 



Along tlie north coast of tlie Varanger Peninsula the observed heights 

 of the Tapes-line are also C(Mn])arativcly high, and along the north and 

 south side of Varanger Fj(jrd they arc partly higher partly lower than 

 the computed Aalues, but on tlie average slightly higher. In Lakse Fjord 

 and Forsanger Fjord to the west of Tana Fjord the observed heights of 

 the Tapes-line are also on the whole higher than the computed ones, but 

 there is no distinct regularity in the differences. 



Provided that the observed heights of the two shore-lines are fairly 

 correct, the distribution of the negative and positive differences in eastern 

 Finmark, as given by Tanner's observations, inay indicate — either that, 

 in the region of the inner end of Tana Fjord, the land has risen com- 

 paratively less during the later period of emergence, after the Tap?s time, 

 than in the region to the east, and also less than in the region of Hammer- 

 fest — Alten and Tromso, while especially along the north coast of the 

 Varanger Peninsula and also along the southern side of \aranger Fjord 

 this upheaval may have been comparatively greater — or that the upheaval 

 during the first period of emergence, before the Tapes period, has been 

 comparatively great in the inner part of Tana Fjord, and comparatively 

 small along the north coast of Varanger Peninsula, &c. 



As long as we have no reliable investigation and measurements of 

 the strandfiat and its levels in this region, it is hardly possible to decide 

 which of these alternatives are most probable. If we could as.sume that 

 the upheaval of the land is not yet quite completed in the region" of inner 

 Tana Fjord, and that there is still left about 2 metres, this might give 

 a simple explanation, although it would not explain that the Tapes-line 

 seems to stand nearly i metre too high along the north coast of the land. 



The Upper Limit of Lateglacial Submergence and the Tapes Level 



on the Kola Peninsula. 



On the Ribachi Peninsula (Fisker Halvoen), Kildin Island, and the 

 coasts of the Kola Peninsula Wilhelm Ramsa}- has investigated and 

 measured the heights of several levels of raised beaches [1898]. The 

 highest of these are higher than the shore-line which seems to correspond 

 to the upper shore-line in northern Norway, generally assumed to represent 

 the upper limit of submergence. 



