Show SEES EE CHANGES i IN MOUNTAINS I I Andes Ande Moving Eastward While C California a I if 0 r n i a Ranges Move North WA WASHINGTON Oct Vast 2 2 geological l changes chances In hi which the th Andes mountains ire are bong bems- b nc pushed aloe ly Iy eastward and lind the Califor Califor- California California nia coast ranges rans-es forced north northward are re In progress res In the th opinion of Dr Bailey Balloy professor professor-eme- ritus eme ritus of o geology it ot Leland Stan Stan- Stanford Stanford ford The Th eastern part or of Japan he lie said gild Is probably mot mot- Ing Inc westward Dr Willis has haA just returned from South America where he be was sent by b the th Carnegie Institution Of Washington to study the th earth earth- earthquake earth I I quake which rocked Chile a a ear er ear ereo ago eo The Tho changes In the th earths earth's sur- sur sur surface taco face he h said are ar resulting from Irresistible pressure from from within the th earth oarth arth beneath the th Pa Pa c deep which offers otten ot r an n ex cx explanation of ot recent disastrous tre- tre tremors tre tr mors more mors Both the tho th Chilean earthquake ke and the JapaneSe catastrophe Dr Wh- Wh While Wll ile believes believe were duo due du to the th pro pro- process process pro pro-ces cess of geological changes chances and lInd many equally serious seismic die dis- disturbances dl may be b expected c for tor gen generations to come G RD IW Although b scientists have known he Ie declared that thet the th California ranges are ar marching northward nOI It took the th Chilean earthquake to pro prote e that the th Andes are ar shirting steadily eastward The movement to n each case casi Is away from the ocean Dr Willis mills said Sl aid his studies In Cotta had bad confirmed the tho th theory or of clastic rebound as es a prime primo prim condi condi- condition condition condition tion of ot earthquake vibrations Ex- Ex Explaining Ex this hi he h said a mass m s ot of rock might be b considered rd to be 1000 miles long miles mile wide wid and miles thick This Thie might be pushed eastward by tIe the th changes changos the th earth but when It moved just so o far tar the th pressure would become too intense Intene and the hole thole mass would world snap nap back Ith t a re earthquake STATIONS MOVE 10 In the tha case cas ot of California he h said Raid can even estimate e rough rough- roughly roughly ly ly the rate rat at which the tb western Is 1 mo mo since measure measure- measurements ments made by the Id I'd coa coast coant t and sun survey ey demonstrated changes of ot position of ot their trans trans- transfIguration trana fIguration station observations have Repeated Repented that the th sta- sta stations eta shown hoWD he h continued I lions established e by that surrey suny have moved three thre feet or more more mor Ina In Ina ina a period of ot 10 or 15 18 ears Upon loo t o occurrence of ot an earthquake ho however e eer er the th stations sprang bac part way Into their th lr original post post- positions peti petitions lions proving again the th theory of elastic as a a a prime condl- condl condition condl I tion of ot seismic n Science lifts has confirmed also aleo al o ho bo said ald that the horizontal jump of ot the th mass massin ma In California during the th earth earth- earthquake earth quake ot of t 1906 1 0 aaa nae 20 feet fet ROCKS ROCKe cnn WAY Y Dr Willis mills declared there ther Is ie 1 every I Cason to believe bellevo bell v also that In the sinN since the tho th die die- dis ears cars 11 of o i began beran the th slipped ranges rang ot of California hav ha slipped many miles milea poet past each other The Andes he h said may be b spreading er Argentina at the rate rat of a ameter ameter ameter 0 over er meter a II century century- two or three meters Dr Willie said the I cause aue of ot these the vast geological n Is 1 to be b Sound found Inside the tho th earth arth Molecular forces are brought Into action by beat heat and rocks rock under a 1 causing reat of of Chile deep d ep or or like Japan apan that to oft off eb expand e the tho coast horl- horl coasto hori borl- horizontally while whir they thy shorten ver ver- ver- ver vertically vertically |