Guide leaflet (1901) (14581684458)

Mount Fuji form Lake Shoji in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

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Title: Guide leaflet

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history

Publisher: New York : The Museum

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Wide World Photograph A.n aerial view show-ing the ruins of Mi/agi, Japan, as they3vere burning, follow-ing the destructiveearthquake of March3, 1933 Japan Looking across ShojiLake toward Fujiyama. This particular volcano is quiescent but others inJapan have playedtheir part in theperiodic earthquakesthat are common inthe Japanese archipelago ©hy E. M. Newman.Iliblishers Photo Service

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NATURAL HISTORY civilized world, together with the improve-ments that have been made in the differenttypes of self-recording instruments, therehas been a marked increase in the number ofearthquakes recorded. The Composition of the Earth The study which has been made during thepast few decades of seismograph records hasrevealed that the earth has a crust composedof solid material, and that it has a thicknessvariously interpreted as being 40 to 60miles in depth. The irregular configurationof the earths outer surface is a matter ofcommon knowledge. The highest point ofland, represented by Mount Everest, has anelevation of 29,141 feet; the greatest depthof the sea, known as the Swire Deep, off theeast coast of the Philippines, measures35,433 feet. The maximum reHef of theearths surface is thus approximately 12Mmiles. The average height of the land, how-ever, is but 2,300 feet above sea level, ornearly a half mile, while the oceans have anaverage depth of 11,500 feet, or a littlemore than

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