Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Mountains That Move. [ARTICLE]

Mountains That Move.

The results of geodetic studies by British scientists in the Himalayas and the Tibetan mountains indicate an apparent creeping of these gigantic mountain ranges, the greatest on the globe sidewise toward the south, with u consequent crumpling up of the Siwalik hills. For a long time it lias been known, that there exist certain anomalies in the density of the earth under and adjacent to the Himalayas, but this suggestion of a creeping motion is novel. The surveys that still are in progress may eventually disclose : the real facts, but the operations on the Tibetan side are rendered difficult" by the fact that Tibet is not yet wholly accessible to the scientists.