544 Prof. J. Park — Tertiaries and Cretaceous, Neiv Zealand. 



Point District. His work of many months in this limited area shows 

 no evidence of faulting, and seems to prove the unconformable 

 relationship of the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations beyond all 

 possible doubt. Moreover, it is almost certain that the tilting and 

 folding of the Cretaceous Series took place before the deposition of 

 the Tertiaries ; for it is inconceivable that the younger series could 

 have escaped the folding movement that subjected the older to such 

 sharp disturbance. 



Fig. 3. Map of Shag Point. 



Kaitangata District. — Here, as at Shag Point, we have both Lower 

 Tertiary and Cretaceous strata, which, according to the Cretaceo- 

 Tertiary theory, are supposed to be horizontal equivalents. The 

 Kaitangata Cretaceous Coal Series rests on the schists, and the 

 Tertiary Series on both the schists and Kaitangata Series. No actual 

 contact of the Cretaceous rocks and Tertiaries is anywhere exposed, 

 the juncture being obscured by a thick sheet of glacial detritus. But 

 the distribution as shown by the very exact mapping lately carried 

 out by Mr. A. G. MacDonald, the marked difference in the character 

 of the strata, and the palseontological evidence seem to leave only one 

 conclusion possible. 



