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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 
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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 
