Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Washington District of Columbia 1906 - 1908
Page 69
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Transcription
"During the Tertiary Mexico in the gutter western half is land. A long narrow land into Central America. In the Eocene there is gap between Venezuela and Central America of an 1/2 mile. In the Miocene widely connected. My Devonian Landlake axis is accepted. Finally he told me that through a study of these lines he has learned that the water in Southern Hemisphere is pressing the southern continents to the North. That the gutter un-affects old lands and undisturbed Paleozoic strata are situated around the North Pole. India is shoved under the Hindujas, Africa for moved against Tethys folding those strata one to the north. Further that other movements are each way laterally for the great ocean pressing of the continental edges. Therefore in the equatorial region the east-west line of structure are on the margin of the Atlantic and Pacific both are heated due to two lines of movements - the move- ment of the Southern Continent north and the lands