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uplift is the more rapid, fault scarps will appear cutting the uncon- 

 solidated deposits. Such scarps, some of them twenty feet in height, 

 are characteristic of both the Eastern and the Western margins of 



Fig. 8. Elevated and present shore lines registered in notches of chalk cliff 

 at Cape Ciro, Celebes. (After Paul and Fritz Sarasin.) 



the Great Basin region. From careful study of the rate of deposi- 

 tion there is here the possibility of reaching an approximate measure 

 of the rate of uplift. 



Investigation, of Earthquake Water Waves. — The great water 

 wave which followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was 



