Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 229: what you’re looking at

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212 ON FAULTING. (CH. xv1. by the occurrence of fissures, commencing at the surface and running downwards; and among the causes which may have given the first impetus to their formation may possibly have been the drying of a surface from which either the sea or inland lakes had been drained off, or even where the climate had _ changed and become arid. That some faults have originated on land surfaces appears from the observations of the United States Survey, who tell us that in the High Plateaux of Utah “The great displacements began in early tertiary time, and are probably yet in progress. The evidences of the recency of some of these movements appear in the escarpments frequently seen along the line of faults where Quaternary beds have been broken at a time so recent that the escarpments have not been destroyed by atmospheric agencies, and further evidence is exhibited in the smal] amount of talus frequently found at the foot of a recently formed fault-scarp*.” The connection of faults with surface changes is indicated by the following passage from Captain Dutton’s work: “It yet remains to speak of another interesting relation of the later system of faults. They have throughout preserved a remarkable and persistent parallelism to the old shore line of the Eocene lake following the broader features of its trend in a striking manner. The cause of this relation is to me quite inexplicable, so much so, that I am utterly at a loss to think of any subsidiary facts which may be mentioned in connection with it and which can throw light upon it*.” It appears that the area of the Eocene lake has been raised by the faulting *. May not the removal of the superincumbent weight of water have been the proximate cause of the disturbance, and of the uprising of the lightened area ? Indeed we might expect that all such readjustments of the equilibrium of the crust as do not arise immediately from 1 ‘Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, by C. E. Dutton, Captain of Ordnance, U.8.A. Prefatory note by Major Powell,’’ p. viii, Washing- ton, 1880. <A description of perhaps the most magnificent system of ae: in the world is to be found in Chap. 11. of this work. 4 Ibid. p. 46. 8 Ibid. p. 38. COMIC OOOKS. CO —————= a Me eC HT