Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 74
JAPAN DAY BY DAY 58 figure 436. The stratum dipped slightly to the west and was filled with fragments of shells and Brachiopods looking pre¬ cisely like those species I had dredged in Tsugaru Straits. The deposit must be very new geologically, and illustrates … how recent and profound are the changes which have taken place in the northern part of this island. This region, judg¬ ing from the fossils, was at one time thirty or more fathoms below sea-level and has been elevated two or three thousand feet within recent geological times. We entered Morioka, a…
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