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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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alabria and north-east Sicilj, and thevolcanic masses of Etna and south-east Sicily. The faults represented probably origin-ated in the Pliocene period. Other lines of dislocation (see Prof. Suesss sketch-map, p. 121)traverse the region shown upon the page-map—one of which, for example, extends fromMineo in Sicily through Etna to Patti on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and is supposedto extend north over the sea-floor to the Lipari Islands. This and other suspected lines ofdislocation are not indicated on the page-map, l)ecause they seem to have had no connec-tion with the recent disturbances. Some Italian geologists are of opinion that a dislocationtraverses the low-lying belt of land between the Gulf of Eufemia and tlie Gulf of Squillace ;and the earthquakes which shake Catauzaro are supposed to be due to the presence of thisfault. But if such a fault really exists (and its existence is only inferred), it is not at all TO ILLUSTRATE PROF. GEIKIES PAPER ON CALABRIAN EARTHQUAKES.
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EoHe or Lipari I(Me s si) La Salina I. (QSaVolcano I VerbiBelvedere, BRSENIANSEA. StTTmhoJi L^^-^^c Ii^d^ 5 it7 Scale - 1: 2.000.000 Eu*fli;»fL Mile:/ Lon^itiuie East \G of Oreenrrich. BiLnJvolaaievr, Eim J 20 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE, east coast of Sicily extends for a long distance in a straight line. Thisremarkable land-feature is indicative of fracture—of a fault, in short,having its hade or downthrow to south-east. And that the fractureand ciisplacement took place at (;uite a recent geological period issuggested by the somewhat rapid descent of the sea-floor, so that deepwater occurs at no gieat distance from the coast. The fault followsthe coast-line from whicli it is probably not far removed. Its range isindeterminate but it would certainly seem to extend beyond Syracuse—in short, it proT)al)ly flanks the whole east coast of Sicily. Towards thenorth it appears to be cut oft near the northern entrance to the Straitof Messina by another powerful submarine dislocation t

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