NORTH ISLAND'S AGE
SHELL FROM A HILLSIDE DISCOVERY AT TAIHAPE How long ago is it since New Zealand emerged from the ocean ? This question arises from time to time when someone discovers a marine deposit of some kind or other remote from the sea in the elevated interior of the country. A Taihape correspondent of the Dominion, Wellington, has forwarded a perfect specimen of a fan-shaped white shell, complete, which was dug out. of a hillside on a farm 15 miles from Taihape. The shell, about 4,in. from the hinge to the top, is beautifully fluted, with four undulating ridges occurring in the corrugations, all terminating in the hinge. There is nothing remarkable about the shell, perhaps, except its perfect conformation and its age, which must bo extreme. On one occasion an eminent geologist of Harvard University came to tho conclusion that Central Otago was one of tit© oldest pieces of land on the face of tho earth. That authority also stated that Switzer-land-was a mere bantling in ago compared with Central Otago; Ho was not so positive, howevdr, "about tho ago of the North Island*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21292, 20 September 1932, Page 10
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