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Fig^. I. — Locality 

 sketch-map of 

 New Zealand. 



At Kawhia, on the western coast of the North Island, folded Triassic and 

 Jurassic rocks are exposed beneath horizontal Tertiary covering deposits. At 

 Waikato Jurassic of undetermined age occurs. Only the Rhsetic and Noric 

 beds of the Trias are known as yet in the North Island. 



In the South Island, in the Nelson district, the Trias is much faulted and 

 folded, and strikes more or less north-north-eastwards and south-south-west- 

 wards — parallel to the main structural axis. In the far south it is much 

 less faulted and disturbed, and the strike of the Trias and Jura from the 

 Hokonui Hills past Kaihiku Gorge to the coast at Nugget Point is approxi- 

 mately west and east to west and south-east, at right angles to the strike in 



