Nature, Volume 74Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1906 |
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Page 283 - April, 1906, was due to one of these movements. The extent of the rift upon which the movement of that date took place is at the time of writing not fully known. It is, however, known from direct field observations that it extends certainly from the mouth of Alder Creek near Point Arena to the vicinity of San Juan in San Benito County, a distance of about 185 miles. The destruction at Petrolia and Ferndale in Humboldt County indicates that the movement on the rift extended at least as far as Cape...
Page 284 - ... on the north-east of the rift. By this it is not intended to imply that the northeast side was passive and the south-west side active in the movement. Most probably the two sides moved in opposite directions. The evidence of the rupture and of the differential movement along the line of rift is very clear and unequivocal. The surface soil presents a continuous furrow generally several feet wide with transverse cracks which show very plainly the effort of torsion within the zone of the movement....