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M. L. de Launav, probably following the suggestion of Suess, placed a 

 Tertiary rift along the axis of Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, and the Labra- 

 dor Sea, and also one on the east side of Greenland and southward 

 through the Atlantic, but he does not appear to have noticed the longi- 

 tudinal rift on the northwest side and the very significant measurements 

 on the lines parallel with it.^ 



On the remaining sides of Greenland there are no suggestive parallel 

 coasts. But it seems certain that the crustal sheet of Eurasia pulled 



Figure 6. — The Landsphere 



Showing the relation of Greenland to the surrounding continents and to the periph- 

 eral mountain ranges of Eurasia and North America. The light arrows show the direc- 

 tion of crustal creep and dispersion. The heavy arrows radiating from Greenland and 

 the pole show roughly by their lengths the relative distances the continents have moved 

 toward lower latitudes. The longest arrows point toward Asia, the shortest toward 

 North America. The broken line north of Asia marks the edge of the continental shelf. 



away from the east side of Greenland and from the region of the pole 

 north of Greenland for a distance two or three times as great as the part- 

 ing between Greenland and Labrador. These relations are roughly 

 sketched in figure 6. It seems probable that the northwest coast of Nor- 



« La Nature, January 21, 1905. Abstract in English : Literary Digest, March 18, 

 1905. pp. 396-397. 



