On the crumpling of the earth's crust

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Abstract
THE causes and conditions of the vast series of movements which have taken place throughout the earth's crust, present perhaps the most fundamental problem of physical or dynamical geology.And yet this problem is one of the most difficult and unsettled in the range of geological inquiry.It is indeed a very complex one, embracing several quite distinct features.The enormous lateral compressions which have everywhere crushed, folded, and contorted the stratified rocks, culminating in vast up tilted and fractured mountain ranges, mayor may not have been instrumental in the elevation of continents, and the depression of ocean-beds.The alternate subsidence and emergence through miles of vertical oscillation of continental areas-successively repeated (by the agency of internal or external influences)-may or may not be correlated with equivalent upheavals and submergence of the present oceanic areas.And whether we infer with some geologists that ocean and continent have more than once changed places, or on the other hand conclude with Dana, and others, that the skeletons of the existing continents were rudely blocked out and the foundations of the great deep laid down in pre-archrean times, we are on either supposition beset with grave and peculiar alternative perplexities.The hypothesis of Joseph Le-
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Authors W. B. Taylor
Journal american journal of science
Year 1885
DOI
10.2475/ajs.s3-30.178.249
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