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of 40 ft. (21, p. 40). Cotton has remarked on the narrow strand-plain 
along the east coast of Marlborough (94, p. 293), and Morgan on sea-worn 
caves 10 ft. to 12 ft. high at Kaikoura (37, p. 20). Here also are wave-cut 
benches 60 ft. and 100 ft. above the sea. The flats at Kekerangu, accord- 
ing to Cotton, suggest an elevation of about 120ft. (94, p. 290; see 
also 16, p. 125). 
The 200-300 ft. group of terraces are also represented in this part of 
New Zealand. A raised beach about 250 ft. high extends across Kaikoura 
Peninsula ; and Cape Campbell is a flat-topped promontory about 200 ft. 
above the sea (36, p. 19). According to McKay, gold-bearing gravels occur 
in the Mahakipawa Valley 200—400 ft. above stream-level (21, pp. 41-42), 
and there are gravel terraces of similar height in the Pelorus and Waka- 
marina Valleys, a few miles from the head of Pelorus Sound. Marine 
terraces of this period extend for miles along the south shore of Golden 
Bay, and rise in gentle slopes to heights of 180-270 ft. along the foot of 
the hill ; 
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In this locality also are remnants of terraces 400-500 ft. high, and near 
the tops of the hills are deposits of well-rounded granite boulders and 
pebbles, 1,000-1,200 ft. above the sea, that could only have been carried 
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there are fluviatile gravels about 700 ft. above stream-level (56, p. ). 
Downs 600—700 ft. high, formed of gravels, occur south of the Wairau Plain 
The 
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flats at the mouth of Shag River are uplifted estuarine beds, and south of 
` The isthmus of Otago Peninsula is formed of raised littoral deposits, am 
the flats round the shores of the many coastal indentations of this district 
are of a similar nature. 
