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Summary of the Contents. 

 Qarternarv-geological Observations in Salten. 



From Skjerstad the Misværfjord goes southward to 

 Misvær, and thence the Misværdal proceeds about 10 km. 

 in the same direction. The Misværdal is formed as a 

 trough, and no part of its bottom lies lower than 153 m. 

 above sea-level. As the loose materials are chiefly built 

 up in terraces, lying higher than the two passages out of the 

 valley, it is supposed that the sea entered in succession to 

 the retreating land-ice and stood during the deepest sub- 

 mergence of the land about 280 m. higher than now at 

 Kaasmoli Farm and in other places at the top of the val- 

 ley, for in that level there is a line in the »round likely 

 to be an old shore-line. Just below this line — the up- 

 per marine boundary — most farms are situated. 



About 18 km. east of Skjerstad the Saitenfjord and 

 its prolongation the Saltdal stretch in a southerly direc- 

 tion. At Rognan at the head of the Saitenfjord there is a 

 shore-line about 3(H) m. above sea-level represented by 

 riple-marks in the Fiskvaagtlaag. At the top of the Salt- 

 dal a narrow ravine the Junkerdalsur leads into the Jun- 

 kerdal the bottom of which lies between 210 and 220 m. 

 above sea-level. Terraces in the bottom of the valley rise 

 to 235 m. above sea-level, and sloping terraces along the 

 Baatfjeld rise still higher. These terraces are probably 

 built up in the fjord that once entered the Junkerdal. 

 During the deepest submergence of the land the shore-line 

 of this fjord lay about 330 m. above the present sea-level. 



