| Show scene 4 at t th the Z zt zante t earthquake 31 Ard aillon of the ecole francaise Fran calse kathenes dA thenes therIes who has been investigating the causes of the zante earthquakes says that they are due to the phenomena of or folding of the earths upper strata the same tension and compression which produced many of the mountain ranges is here in action As the interior of the earth cools cool it sier contracts and tends to leave t the he outer u crust behind the weight of this outer crust however is greater than it can sustain and itis it is therefore compelled to wrinkle thus geologists explain the great ridges and furrows which constitute continents and river basins and they compare this folding odthe of the earths crust with the wrinkling of the skin of al a ried dried apple while this process of wrinkling kling or folding is going on the mighty movement of course destroys the he equilibrium of the rock st strata rata and in cos consequence bence earthquakes occur and continue with vv ith greater or less les s v violence until equilibrium is again T restored unfortunately for zante it lies in in the line of disturbance and must suffer until the same causes that reared our appalachian pa pala lachlan chian mountains cease to operate in its neighborhood |
