Tertiary Mountain Research Articles

Correlation of Tertiary Mountain Ranges in the Different Continents

Introduction The writer had discussed various aspects of the so-called Tertiary mountain belt of the earth, especially its mode of origin and significance in the later chapters of the earth’s history, in the following papers: Bearing of the Tertiary mountain belt on the origin of the earth’s plan: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 21, 1910, pages 179–226. The lateral migration of land masses [abstract] : Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 13, number 29, 1923, pages 445–447. Movement of continental masses under the action of tidal forces: Pan-American Geologist, volume 43, February, 1925, pages 15–50. Greater Asia and isostasy: American Journal of Science, 5th series, volume 12, July, 1926, pages 47–67. Salient points in Tertiary epeirogeny [abstract] : Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 38, 1926, pages 107–108. Sliding continents and tidal and rotational forces: American Association of . . .

Bearing of Distribution of Earthquakes and Volcanoes on Their Origin

Introduction This paper is one of a series by the writer on sliding continents and the making of mountain ranges, with special reference to the ranges of the so-called Tertiary mountain belt. About forty years ago Neumayr made a map of what he called the earth’s “young” mountain ranges. He represented them by a relatively broad band or belt extending along the southern border of Europe, touching northwestern Africa in the Atlas ranges, and extending thence along the whole southern and eastern front of Asia to central Alaska, where the belt turns southward to form the western cordillera of both North and South America. A branch also runs east and south in the Pacific Ocean around the north and east sides of Australia. This world belt includes all of the high, rugged mountain ranges of the earth. Since mountain-making is much more rapid during the period of its action than . . .

Bearing of the tertiary mountain belt on the origin of the earth's plan

Introduction One of the grandest facts which the science of geology has established up to the present time is the existence of a great world-belt, or girdle, of Tertiary fold-mountains almost encircling the earth. This mountain belt comprises the entire Pacific coast of the two Americas and of Asia and extends westward along the southern border of Asia and Europe to the Atlantic coast in Spain and Morocco. In the Malay archipelago the belt branches to the eastward and sends an arm around the northern and eastern sides of Australia, but the mountain ranges of this branch are mostly submerged, and are now represented only by island chains, including New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and many smaller islands. Excepting the gap between New Zealand and southern Chile, the Pacific Ocean is completely surrounded by the Tertiary mountain belt. This fact rests upon a sound basis of observations, and is . . .