RAISED BEACHES, CLIFF AND RUBBLE HEADS. 



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almost everywhere, and I have drawn a diagram to show their 

 general conditions and contents. 



FIGURE 2. 



Rock Platform. 



1 foot Raised Beach resting 

 on Rock Platform. 



High water mark. 



Present mean sea-level. 



Diagrammatic Section of Cliff showing Positions of Rock Platform, 

 Raised Beaches, Rubble and Clay Bands. 



Commencing from their bases we invariably find large 

 detached angular stones, varying in size from 2 feet diameter 

 to pieces of a few inches (see diagram). At places large de- 

 tached blocks are found embedded in this portion, but they 

 are not so commonly found as the smaller pieces. This layer 

 varies largely in different places and can only be described in 

 general terms as a collection of loose stones, angular, unworn, 

 unweathered and usually identical in kind with the rock 



