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Tln' iicarl\ liorizoiilal ixisiiinn of the slraiiflflat in all rc^'irjiis of 

 the Norwcf^ian ct^asl, ami the fact iliat it: very nearly maintains this 

 liorizontal lewl alonjj;- lines at right angles to the direction of the isobases, 

 seem to indicate that we may answer this (|uestion in the affirmative. 



Wc may, for instance, point to the fact that the le\-el of the strand- 

 flat at \'araldsoi in I lardaiiger h'jord, about 80 kilometres from the outer 

 coast, has practically the same height (17 — 19 metres) above the sea as 

 the lower level of the strandfiat at Haugesund and Karmsund, although 

 the height above present sea-Ie\'el of the upper limit of submergence is 

 in the former region aliout 90 metres, while in the latter it is probably 

 less than 50 metres. 



Along Sognc Fjord this relation is still more conspicuous. The level 

 of the strandfiat is nearly horizontal along the whole of this fjord, while 

 in its inner part, in Sogndal and Norum Fjord, the total ui:)heaval of the 

 land mav have ])een about 135 metres; at \'adhcim it has only been jy 

 metres, and at Rutletangene, near the mouth of the fjcjrd, probably less 

 than 40 metres. 



As, however, the level of the strandfiat appears to be a few metres, 

 I)erhaps about 6 or 7 metres, lower in the inner j)art of the fjord than 

 in its outer part, if our observations be correct, it is possible — either 

 that the upheaval is not yet quite completed in the inner region of the 

 fjord, or that the strandfiat has been raised slightly higher in the outer 

 coastal region by the crust's new level of cquilil)rium. 



In northern Norway we finrl the same striking features. The strand- 

 flat lies very nearly in the same level along the coast of the mainland 

 as well as on the islands of Træna, Rost, ^'æroi, and Lofoten far outside 

 this coast, although the lateglacial and postglacial upheaval of the land 

 has been about 80 to 90 metres along the coast of the mainland and 

 probably not apprecial)ly more than the elevation of the strandfiat on Rost, 

 and not much more along the oitter coast of the Lofoten Islands. There 

 is, however, here possibly the same difference between the levels of the 

 strandfiat in the inner and outer regions as we have found in Sogne Fjord. 

 On Donna and Heroi the lower level of the strandfiat is probably about 

 10 metres, or less, above the sea, while on Rost and A'æroi its height may 

 be 14 to 16 metres. The explanation may be the same here as in Sogne 

 Fjord. 



In the inner end of Christiania Fjord the strandfiat has very nearly 

 the same height above present sea-level as along the west coast of Xorway, 

 in spite of the great difference in the upper limit of lateglacial sub- 

 mergence, which at Christiania was about 220 metres. 



There are, as we have already seen, other indications that the present 

 shore-line has remained practically stable for a considerable time. 



The fairly broad modern shore-ledges cut in solid rock along the 

 shores of the Fornebo Peninsula near Christiania, just above mean water 



