CRUSTAL MOVEMENTS 



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flood plain sank, and the sunken portions gave rise to marshes and 

 lakes, some of which still remain, with the trunks of the drowned 

 trees still rising above the water. 



Fig. 192. A wreck caused by the Charleston earthquake. (U. S. Geol. Surv.) 



ig. 193. The bending of railway track in India; earthquake of 1897. 



(Oldham.) 



