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Title: The American journal of science
Identifier: americanjournal491900newh (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New Haven : J. D. & E. S. Dana
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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324 Verrill—Notes on the Geology of the Bermudas. rises in one place to within 8 fathoms of the surface of the sea. These two peaks and Bermuda are connected together by a ridge, covered with water only 580 to 690 fathoms deep, while the surrounding sea, on all sides, is over 2,000 fathoms deep. The submerged slope of the Bermuda Mountain, on the north side, is steeper than that of any known large volcano upon the dry land. It falls off 1250 fathoms in 6 miles. That is at the rate of about 1250 feet to the mile. The slope of the Argus Bank is, on one side, 7620 feet in 10 miles. (See fig. 4.) Sea Level
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Figure 4.—I. Sectional diagram of submerged slope northward fromTNorth Rocks (N); II. The same southward from Castle Harbor (C). III. Sketch map showing the situation of Argus Bank (A); Challenger Bank (C); and southwestern end of the Bermudas; Somerset Island (S); Ireland Island (I); Main Island or Bermuda (B. I.); Hamilton town (H); a, b, line of the section shown in IV. IV". Section through Somerset Island (S), Challenger Bank (C), and Argus Bank (A), along the line a, 6, in III, All soundings are given in fathoms. Evidences of Subsidence. Figs. 1, 5, 6. In making the excavation for the great dry dock at Ireland Island a bed of peat was found, containing cedar stumps in a

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