Show Marvel of the as Geologists See It Following two years ot of study In Inthe inthe the field geologists or of Northwestern university ha base hae e been able to deter deter- determine determine mine the sequence of events that brought about the formatIon of the Rocky mountains Profs J T Stark and C H Behre conducted the survey Before the mountains began to form Into theIr present shape saId I Behre there was a flat fIat area of sea andi bottom Into whIch the gravel and i sand from nearby higher country was being poured At the end of that time called the Age of Reptiles a pressure caused by the earth contracting was WIlS exerted along the sIdes of the area Hot molten lava from Inside the earth as forced in between layers of rock and the Surface bulged up up- upward ward Into the beginning of the moun- moun mountaIn mountain taIn chaIn as the side pressure be- be became became came too great the rocks were folded and broken The cracks ran down to- to toward toward ward the center of the earth These were huge north south cracks In- In Inclined inclined downward toward the east east and the rocks or of the eastern sIde mo mosed moed ed upward with respect to those on the west The geologIst then told how great molten masses from insIde the earth forced theIr way outward long these cracks |