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

Westland Formation

Westland Formation.

Before treating of the next, or Waihao formation, overlying the crystalline metamorphic (gneiss granite) formation, I wish to refer to that assemblage of older sedimentary and metamorphic beds lying west of the latter, and being generally in close proximity to the granite axis previously described. In order to avoid confusion, I have given it a distinct tint in the Geological Map, and placed it next to the gneiss granite formation in the table of reference. I am well aware, as already pointed out, that it consists of beds of more than one age, but owing to a want of more intimate knowledge of them, and having only had an opportunity of examining them in very few spots, distant from each other, it has been impossible for me, at present, to separate them.