\N" OROGRAPHIC SKETCH OF KOREA. 55 



it {Anschmiegung), lint do one knows what became of them after 

 they disappeared in the Tung-hai. 



The broad belt of the Sinian System which obliquely crosses the 

 Korean peninsula, if extended beyond the Tung-hai, will join with the 

 mountains of South China, to which the name Sinian System was 

 originally given by Pumpelly. Baron v. Richthofen's ideal line runs 

 from South Japan to Fuchou and then goes along the coast of Fokien 

 and Kwang-tung, as is well seen on II. Fischer's map 2) of East Asia. 

 As may be seen on any tolerably good map of South China, a greater 

 portion of the Sinian System, of which Ta-yü-ling 3) forms the axis, 

 enters the Tung-hai between Fuchou and Shang-hai, and its further 

 prolongation will correspond well both in its direction and its breadth 

 to those which I venture to call the Sinian folds of Korea. 



It should, be specially remarked that, if the Sinian System in 

 Korea be prolonged to the north-east, a greater part of the folds will 

 again unite directly with the tectonic lines of the Sichota-alin, as they 

 are given in Ivanow's work. 4 -" (Pages 13-17.) 



ii. The Sinian represents an old system of crustal folds in the 

 peninsula; and contemporaneously with it or a little later, there was 

 generated another system in the Liau-tung direction in the Kai-ma 

 Land, which was posthumously faulted in serial order towards the 

 south, producing the parallel ridges of Myo-hyang-san, Työk-yu-ryöng 

 and Kal-eunff-nvönfir. These trend from AW S.W. to E.X.E. and form 

 apparently the direct continuation of South Manchuria. The well- 

 known Chyang-päik-san stretches, however, east and west, obliquely 



1) Die morphologische Stelliinj von Formosa und den Riukiu Inseln. Sitzungsberichte der 

 Kön. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissenschaften z. Berlin, 1902, S. 904. 



2) E. Debes' Neuer Handatlas. Xo. 41. 



4) La chaîne du Siklwta-Aline, p. 1L2. Explorations géologiques et minieres le long 'lu 

 Chemin de fer de Sibérie. Livraison XVI. St. Petersbourg, 1S93. 



