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Show I EXPLORERS FIND I AGE OF IDES 9l South American Expedition Shows Continent Was Connected Con-nected to Antarctic 1 Baltimore, Oct :i rmqIu of J the Oeorge Huntingdon Wil I la m ' memorial expedition to South Amerl- H cm. which wu nent to Chile. Bolivia and Peru lo April. 119. by the John Bj Hopkins university for the purpose of investigating the history of the Andes mountains and searching for rr-historic rr-historic remains which would tend to throw light upon the ear history of 8ou:h America, were made public I Thursday by Dr Edward V Berry, of th department of geology OOmnBCTKD TO WTr.fT!( rne of Ihf rr.ns' .ntrrest.nr div n eries the expedition madr was un- I doubtedly evidence th.it South Amerl- ca was connected with the antarctic h I regions by land masses that sunk be HJ low the sea ages ago. Dr. Berry aald J that the discovery of animal ano veg- etubli' fosells on the mainland of J South America nnd the same varieties bH of fossils in the land around the South role, and ntso the character of the rocks in both South America and antarrtlra. was proof that the two land masses were formerly connected. Among other Interesting dlsroverleo J whs ihnt the Andrs mo intuitu about which little had been known before. BH wrr from five to twrnt-. million year vounjer than the rocks around Ilaltl-WM Ilaltl-WM more. Dr. Berry I1 that the rocks comprising the western ring.- of the, Ande were of the mesozole age. or about five million years old. fihy mci t Ol IfG IIOI I r The Katern range of the mountains was of the Paleozoic. Silurian and de-vonlan de-vonlan ages, and were formed about JM ' twenty million yprs ago. The tc- fl i lunl uplift Into mountains occurrca i In very recent timen, probably not r age appeared In Europe, lie salrt the ' jH the youngest large mountain system 1 1 included In the numerous geological Hl Fpcclmens and fossil remains which' HhI the expedition brought home ae large ' HV numbers of fossil se.tshell found on 1 La I Hfl the strata forming the mountains f' were once submerged below th level i of the sea Rrmnlns of a fossil flra. i y such as Immense ferns, mil other i 1 plants of the carboniferous age. which I help to make the coal beds of the re- , glon were found. A few specimens of Inrgc land animals. SUCtl as huge ! ground sloths. s,i ber-toot h i'tfen nnd Hf other animals of a remote age. were found, but practically none of the antedeluvlan reptilian animals wtre' discovered. |