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ain, the presence of steep hillsides, believed to have been derived 
from old sea-cliffs, along the landward edge of the remnants of this plat- 
form, together with the occurrence of a decided break at or some little 
explain it as being probably due to differences in the supply of waste 
brought to the sea by rivers. 
The 200-300ft. group of benches, except in North Auckland, is well 
represented at many points round the New Zealand coast. Where «wave- 
attack has been the rule only remnants occur, but in sheltered localities 
and Cotton in connection with the Manawatu lowlands; both, however, ' 
the sloping surfaces are more extensive. As far as the writer knows, sea- ' 
clifis everywhere back the wave-cut platforms, but where the terrace is 
chiefly wave-built no definite break in the land profile has been observed. 
The bench is particularly well preserved at Tongue Point, near Wellington ; 
at Tapuwae Rocks, ten miles north-east of Gisborne ; and near Crayfish 
Point, thirteen miles north of Raglan. In the South Island it is well shown 
erraces of the 350-600 ft. group occur at various points all round the 
coast of New Zealand, but, so far as known to the writer, are best repre- 
sented north of Raglan and again at Hicks Bay (formed of Pleistocene 
sand), north of Awakino (carved from Tertiary rocks), between Palliser 
Bay and Wellington Harbour (carved from greywacke), near Charleston, 
at Cascade Point in South Westland, and at the mouth of the Clarence 
ium where they represent the uplifted delta of that stream. There seems 
Marine terraces and other land-features formed whe 
n New Zealand was 
more deeply depressed than 600 ft. below present sea-level are represented 
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