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July 4-1918 Thursday. Little River
Directly across the estuary from the Little River railway station
or one
can be seen a fine glacial cinque. There are two cascades coming down
at that time
and these unite into a small placin that is quite like tunnelled by a stream.
Yesterday we saw two other cignes to the south of here.
North
Lug Range Fault Scarpe
Chinqu
Lower plain
Lake Level
We have a photo of it taken in the morning against the sun.
Little River
Station
Almost stormy, with [illegible]
About over all we see that the valley walls rise on far less
directly than the Lug Range. The sky-line is flatter and long here
in sunlight
the Lug Range is much dissected by hanging walls one of which
ends in cignues.
The western face of the Long Range is continuous and at
North Branch we see it for 20 miles to the south and once than 10 miles
to the north. It has no spurs extending orsting, but in one fault line
scarps. The Windsor series rises up on its side to about 500 to
550 feet above the sea, and here it dips steeply into the mountain.
We took the tram south 16 miles to North Branch and in the evening
came back to Little River. We are impressed by the straight face of
the Long Range Hills. It has no spurs and much of the slopes descended
at an angle of 45 to 30 degrees.
The upper slope
appears to represent the undivided
fault line scarps. The walls and cignues cutting through it are all
longing walls with their bottoms now estimated to be about 3 or 4 feet
or less above the level of the river walls. From the floor of the