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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12645287113).jpg 1848 MURCHISON ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE ALPS <br> 251 <br> This ingenious explanation of Professor H Rogers may it appears <br> to me be very well applied to those examples in the Alps where as <br> assumed by him in his diagrams the strata of different ages have <br> originally been continuously and conformably superposed Such <br> Fig 29 <br> Fracture through the anticlinal axis-plane of an inverted flexure the elevated <br> mountains are to the right hand <br> No 1 Commencement of <br> fracture after flexure <br> No 2 After fracture and <br> displacement <br> No 3 After denudation <br> Fig 30 <br> Fracture through the synclinal axis-plane of an inverted flexure <br> No 1 Fracture before <br> displacement <br> No 2 After disDlacement <br> No 3 After denudation <br> for example may have been the case in all those tracts where the <br> cretaceous rocks were formerly surmounted by nummulite limestone <br> and flysch and where after having been thrown into inverted anti- <br> clinals and synclinals they were afterwards fractured and denuded in <br> the manner described Of this class of faults the figures 16 and 19 <br> may be cited as very probably answering to the law of displacement <br> observed in the United States In the first of these near Dornbirn <br> I say probably because in the Alps the subterranean course of faults has not <br> been ascertained by mining operations as in the United States and examination is <br> usually much impeded by vast quantities of detritus 35268895 109512 51125 Page 251 Text v 5 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268895 1849 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 5 1849 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35268895 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268895 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-20 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12645287113 2015-08-27 10 53 19 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1849 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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