| Show scene at atie zante earthquake M Ardai Uon of the ecole Franc alae kathenes dA thenes 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 it contracts and tends to leave the outer crust behind the weight of this outer crust however is greater than it can sustain and 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 of the earths crust with the wrinkling of the skin of a dried apple while this process of wrinkling or folding is going on the mighty movement of course destroys the equilibrium of the rock strata and in consequence earthquakes occur and continue with greater or less violence until equilibrium is again restored unfortunately for zante it lies in the line of disturbance and must suffer until the same causes that reared our appalachian pala chian mountains cease to operate in its neighborhood |
