Along with “Earth in Upheaval”.
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL.
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Mountain Thrusts in the Alps and Elsewhere
THE AGE of a rock formation is ascertained with the help
of the fossils it contains. To the surprise of many scientists, it was found that mountains have traveled, since
older formations have been pushed over on top of
younger ones.
Chief Mountain in Montana is a massif standing several
thousand feet above the Great Plains. It “has been
thrust bodily upon the much younger strata of the Great
Plains, and then driven over them eastward, for a distance
of at least eight miles. Indeed, the thrust may have been
several times eight miles,” writes Daly.1
“By similar thrusting, the whole Rocky Mountain
Front, for hundreds of miles, has been pushed up and
then out, many miles over the plains.”
Such titanic displacements of mountains have been
found in many places on the earth. The displacement of
the Alps is especially extensive.
“During the building of the Alps gigantic slabs of rock,
thousands of feet thick, hundreds of miles long, and tens
of miles wide, were thrust up and then over, relatively to
the rocks beneath. The direction of the relative overthrusting movement was from Africa toward the main
mass of Europe on the north. The visible rocks of the
northern Alps of Switzerland have thus been shoved
northward distances of the order of 100 miles. In a sense
the Alps used to be on the present site of northern
Italy.” ...