ESS102H1 Lecture Notes - Fitz Roy, Fault Scarp, Geophysical Global Cooling
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General des mines: published geological map of freance (1840, with dufrenoy) 1852: notice sur les systems des montagnes = on mountain systems (prevalent thinking in the 19th century) Earth has been cooling down shrinkage of inner earth has caused stress buildup in outer rigid crust. Mountains compared to wrinkles on a drying apple. Charles darwin: voyage of the beagle aside: correct explanation of formation of coral reeds circling a lagoon. ): have built up from submerged volcanoes, volcanoes had once broken above sea level observations: earthquakes generated 1-2m fault scarp and elevated shorelines. 20 feb 1883: there can be no doubt that the land round the bay of. Concepcion was upraised two or three feet about thirty miles distant. [] captain fitz roy found beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark: the inhabitants had formerly dived at lower-water spring-tides for these shells.
