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result has been to wear away all but a comparatively small 

 patch of the ancient sea-bottom sediments. Steep-walled 

 gorges and canyons have thus been sunk, leaving massive 

 tables, mesas, and terraced plateaus that reach down to the 



JT IG 15 From a photograph 



The Kaumajet Mountains, looking north from Mugford Tickle. 



valley-bottoms in gigantic steps like those in the much 

 younger strata of the Colorado Canyon. The result has 

 been to fashion a type of mountain scenery truly wild and 

 imposing and of unusual interest in possessing an architec- 

 tural element quite lacking in the other high mountains of 

 the Atlantic coast. This special quality is best brought out 

 when a fresh fall of snow lying on the narrow ledges of the 

 even-coursed cliffs makes evident the nearly horizontal 

 structure. 



Examples of the Kaumajets are represented in Fig- 

 ures 15 and 16, drawn from photographs. In Figure 16 

 the old buried surface of the Basement Complex, revealed 

 once more after its millions of years, probably tens of 



