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Kōrero: Geomorphology – a history

Landscape development

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Landscape development

Geologist Charles Cotton often produced composite diagrams showing how a landscape had developed. This two-stage sketch shows a lava plateau (rear) that has been progressively eroded so that there are only remnants of the lava on the tops of hills (front).

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Reference: Charles Cotton, Geomorphology. Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1942, fig. 350

by Charles Cotton

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Rebecca Priestley, Geomorphology – a history – Key theories: 1880s–1940s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/diagram/13117/landscape-development (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rebecca Priestley, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.