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laore than thlrty-fiv© isiles in froia the extremities of 

 the Intervening peninsulas (25), while It 1« often ware 

 tJioa one hundred bailee in I'rors th« Kxtreiiitles of th« 

 aorth-coaat ptminsul«t, 



Tii© efest^^m fjords, sik! correspoMinf? deeps, 

 ©Iso differ froffi tha northern f JoTds snd deeps in that 

 xu&j ow® th«ii' origin aoiel^ to 8Ub8@ri«l erosion, which 

 took j;lu©© at th® «ad of th® Pliocene epocth* A» fer ea 

 is jcnowa, no faulting is irivolYedl in their depression, 



Olecial excavation during %k& Pleistocene 

 ©pocia hea deepened jMsay of the fjords, producing anelosod 

 basins and wtll-<levelop©d thr*^^holds. These baslas, 11I» 

 the oasins of th© Horthw®»tera Peninsula fjords, are thp 

 sites of aooumulE»tion of fine 3«di®eats, Th© siuds «re typ- 

 ical of the atinicinff:, block f jorci siuds usuelly produced 

 under eo£i.dl-5ion3 of st?i3:a8tion (20,p,84). 



The Shelf BetKi>een Hjerads Fl6i gad Sandvik. Bathfitwr 

 Imd fiottoa ;?«dlment8 



Hjerads F1&3 and Kj®r»ds FI61 Dyb, enclosed 

 by th« 100- fathom <Sf>pth curve, eppeer st the top of ths 



chert, A belt of mud is shown lyinf- ia th© de«p end over- 

 lapping aoiaswhst onto the benlc south of It, This mua is 



continuous with ths «*#• of amd in Hjersds Fl^l Dyb stMiwn 



dnB.A.297S, 



^outh of n4<$r&ds il6i i)y^ th« bank 0(:sllsd 



