the hinge-line of the tilt coincided roughly with the north-western 

 coast of the Wellington Peninsula, and the uplift increased to 5ft. 

 .at Wellington, and thence to 9 ft. at a point on the shore of 

 Palliser Bay, about fifteen miles in a direct line east-south-east from 

 Wellington . 



As a result of the movement extensive areas of the rock platforms 

 cut by wave-action along the southern coast in the neighbourhood 

 of Wellington during a relatively long period of stillstand were raised 

 permanently above high-water level (fig. 7). 



The rock platform is surmounted by stacks, and numerous 

 irregular hollows in it are filled with gravel. Wave-cut cliffs rise 

 behind the platforms, with occasional sea-caves at the base, and there 

 is generally a convex beach-ridge of gravel at the former shore-line. 

 Both beach and platform now support a scanty growth of vegetation, 

 the seaward limit of which is a new beach-ridge. The most extensive 

 rock platforms stretch out seaward from the base of the cliffs at 

 the southern end of Miramar Peninsula (fig. 3). The raised beaches 

 have been largely destroyed in the course of road-construction, their 

 presence allowing of the cheap formation of roads along the foreshore, 

 but a strip about a mile in length along the eastern shore of the 

 southern end of Miramar Peninsula still remains in a good state of 

 preservation. 



Access. The best of the raised beaches and associated features 

 may be seen in the course of a walk from Lyall Bay (tram-terminus) 

 eastward around the south end of Miramar Peninsula. Keep to the 

 foreshore as far as Breaker Bay quarry, thence take the road through 

 .a cutting to Seatoun (tram - te'rminus) . On the sides of this catting 

 almost horizontal " earth pillars " may be seen pointing southward 

 (Cotton, Geomorphology of New Zealand, fig. 35). 



HIGH-STANDING WAVE-CUT PLATFORMS. 



W T est and east of the downwarped Port Nicholson area the coasts 

 .are of the multicycle uplifted type, and the uplift (which has left its 

 impression on the land also, in the form of multicycle subaerial 

 features) was no doubt general prior to the occurrence of the local 

 subsidence. Wave-cut rock platforms with a thin veneer of gravel 

 and coarse sand occur at various levels. They are reduced to narrow 

 benches by cliff-cutting marine erosion in the intermediate and present 

 cycles, and in many places have been cut away altogether. 



West of Port Nicholson the high platforms that survive are only 

 two in number, and the higher of these is represented by but one 

 small remnant. The lower is traceable for several miles from Cape 

 Terawhiti to beyond Tongue Point (fig. i) but for a great part of 

 this distance only in the section exposed along the sea-cliffs, in which 

 the even top of a cut bench can be very distinctly seen from sea- 

 ward. This is covered, however, by a thick accumulation of talus, 

 the slope of which quite obscures the profile of the bench. At Tongue 

 Point, however, quite a large remnant of the bench survives. 



East of Port Nicholson there is an extensive series of benches, 

 each the remnant of a cut platform (figs. 5 and 8). These are tilted 



