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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand. A Report Comprising the Results of official Explorations. By Julius Von Haast , PH.D., F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury Museum , Professor of Geology in Canterbury College (New Zealand University), and Late Government Geologist t...

Explorations of the Rivers Rangitata and Ashburton, 1861 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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In order to obtain a general insight into the geology of the country I selected the River Rangitata to its sources as my base of operations. And after the necessary preparations were made, I started on the 20th February, 1861, for that river, accompanied by my friend the late Dr. A. Sinclair , wh...

Exploration of the Head Waters of the Waitaki, 1862 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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After having written a progress report on the work undertaken in the Kowai and on the ranges in the neighbourhood, I started again, end of January, 1862, this time for the Mount Cook District, with a view to ascertain if any auriferous deposits occurred in that region, and to continue the regular...

Canterbury Plains - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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Several important questions regarding the Canterbury plains having been raised, as to the flow of the River Waimakariri and other points having reference to engineering works, the Secretary for Public Works instructed me to report on the formation of those plains. During the winter months I visit...

New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Dunedin, 1865 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The Provincial Government having accepted an invitation to have the Geological Survey of Canterbury represented in the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, to be held at Dunedin in the beginning of 1865, I prepared a number of geological and botanical specimens, maps, and sections for exhibition, a...

From the Discovery of the West Coast Goldfields to the Termination of the Geological Survey oe Canterbury, End of June, 1868 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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Journey to the Head-waters Of The Rakaia—1866 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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I now prepared myself for a longer journey into the Southern Alps selecting the head-waters of the Rakaia for this year's campaign. Starting on March the 2nd, and returning on the 18th of April, all the principal source-branches of that river were examined, and the weather was so fine, that durin...

Christchurch and Lyttelton Railway Tunnel - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The tunnel works of the Christchurch and Lyttelton railway having advanced so rapidly that only a few chains towards the centre were yet to be pierced, I continued to examine carefully the highly interesting section thus offered, and sent a copy of that geological survey, a section drawn at a sca...

A Visit to Glenmark, and Heavy Floods, End of July and Beginning of August, 1867 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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Wishing to make some more excavations in Glenmark, I proceeded there, this time taking with me the late F. R. Fuller, taxidermist to the Museum, On arriving there on the afternoon of July 30th the sky looked very angry. During the night it began to rain very heavily, changing next morning to snow...

Geological Examination of Banks Peninsula, 1868 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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During the month of February the Geological Survey of this isolated volcanic system was continued. Several of the highest summits were ascended, and the complex structure of this zone, which, as I advanced, continually presented new and instructive features, was studied, the details of which will...

Chapter III. The Canterbury Museum and Geological Explorations from 1868 to 1876 - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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No provision having been made for the proper custody of the Museum, and being anxious that the collections which I had had such trouble to bring together should be cared for, I offered my gratuitous services as Honorary Director until the meeting of the Provincial Council, when final arrangements...

Chapter I. General Considerations - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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Looking at a map of the earth on Mercator's projection, we observe isolated from all continents and far from the innumerable islands in the Pacific Ocean, two larger islands and some smaller ones running in a south-west and north-east direction, and as my friend Professor Dr. F von Hochstetter so...

Chapter II. Orographical Features - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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* I was unable to give in the Geological map attached to this Report, the orographical features of the country, as such an addition would have seriously interfered with its clearness. However, the extent of the nevé fields, and the size of the glaciers descending on both sides, together with the ...

The Rakaia - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The hydrographical system of the Rakaia, 1547 miles in extent, has its western boundary along the central chain from Mount Tyndall to Mount Harman, a distance of forty-eight miles in a straight line. The main branch, to which the native name has been preserved, has for about twenty-one miles a st...

The Rangitata - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The river, the hydrographic basin of which nest claims our attention, is the Rangitata, and although that portion of the Southern Alps proper which it drains is not so extensive as that at the head of the Waimakariri, next to be considered, it measuring scarcely ten miles along the summits of the...

The Waimakariri - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The Waimakariri, another of the important rivers crossing the Canterbury plains, next claims our attention. If we draw a straight line from Mount Greenlaw to the Hurunui saddle, the watershed along the central chain belonging to its hydrographical system is thirty miles long, thus being of greate...

The Ashburton - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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Of the rivers of glacier origin, the last which has its sources and its whole course in the present Province of Canterbury, is the Ashburton, the main source of which is situated on the eastern slopes of Mount Arrowsmith, issuing from the Ashburton glacier, 4832 feet above the sea level. For the ...

The Hurunui - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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The Hurunui is the last river to be mentioned which has its sources on the eastern side of the Southern Alps, reaching the central divide. Its main sources descend from the ranges on both sides of the page 217 Hurunui Pass, but are not of glacier origin. For the first eight miles of its course it...

The Waipara - Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

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North of the Ashley, the River Waipara is situated. It drains the smaller ranges east of the Okuku branch of the first mentioned river. With the exception of six miles, where it crosses the northern extension of the Canterbury plains, its bed breaks through the mountain ranges, which, although of...