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Show RESULT OF FAULT LINES IN THE OBOWTH OF COAST BANGES NEW TORK, April 19. The Times today prints a statement from. Ralph Stockman Tarr, professor of dynamic geology and physical geography at - " Cornell university on the subject of the San Francisco earthquake. He says: - "It Is too early- to pronounce a final "V opinion upon the 'nature and cause of y the San Francisco earthquake, but from what has been said it will be seen 'that It Is probable that this shock is the result of movement along one or more fault lines In the course of the natural growth of the coast ranges, j which geologists have long known to be still in progress throughout the entire en-tire extent of California. - "That the coast ranges are growing .Is proved by numerous evidences. There . are upraised shore lines at various points along the California coast, proving prov-ing recent uplift. The very bay of San Francisco is the result of a geologically recent subsidence of this part of the . ' const which has admitted the sea into tr-ie gorge that the Sacramentq, river. fVmerly cut across the coast ranges. lJfrs forms the Golden Gate and In the "rV?5er mountain valley behind the seaybas spread out to form the bay. - "Whether the center of greatest disturbance dis-turbance of the present shock is In or near the city cannot yet be told, though the meager reports so far received re-ceived Indicate. If It is, San Francisco Is in. danger of future disasters." |