The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-02-24
Origin of The "Ozark Uplift. .
CHAPTER 2.
Prof 0ppeman EnerangY Discusses First Principles in Connection
With the Zinc and Lead Deposits OF Missouri and Arkansas
CHAPTER 2.

dowed with no more heat than the
dynamo which sends forth currents
to illumine the darkest night and is
able to create heat far more intense
than that of our most combustible
fuels In such event the paradox of
remarkable increase of cold as we
proceed toward the sun would dis
appear and it become possible for
that grand orb To he inhabitahle
and OF more significance than that
of Il pepper box to shoot toward us
and other worlds spray OF infinite
ly hne particles OF molten matter,
according to theory Of sunlight
and heat advanced by one of our
greatest philosophers, and so taught
and held until within compare
lively few years.
There is no more foundation for
belief that seismic disturbances are
owing to an incandescent interior
than we have for considering the
clouds to be molten matter because
there proceed from them at times
lightning and fiery meteors. They
are all electrical manifestations and
justly belong under the head of Me
teorology.
Earthquakes are possessed of po-
larity and have their line of tension
and energy in a direction somewhat
east of north with resulting cross
fractures at right angles, or north of
west and south of east During
such commotion there is a rapid ex-
pansion of gas, producing a vibra
tory jar WHICH, being propagated
along the lines Of cleavage and tract
ure and through the pores of the
rocks produce subterranean thun
ders and superficial oscillations ST
simultaneously that are perceptible
for thousands of miles. This is
wholly in accordance with our
earths magnetic nature, just as
much SO as that the magnetic needle
tends to position north and south,
Through Faraday's discoveries we
are assured that our earth is per
feet magnet with well defined poles
and that there are constantly cleo
trio or magnetic rays preceding
from the south to the north pole
which traverse the film on which we
dwell and also the atmosphere that
SUR ounds us. The effect of these
currents is to polarizc all matter. If
for time bar Of iron be buried in
north and south position it be-
comes polarized, and polarity is pos
sesscd to some degree by all rocks
and minerals while liquids and gases
are also effected by a powerful mag
net, Through galvanic action met
ais are precipitated and combined,
and crystals owe their individuali-
ties of figure to polarity; they are
also susceptible to magnetic infu-
ence. In rocks asin vegetation here
are distinct, meridianal, internal and
exfoliated structures that give sym
metrical arrangement of crystals
and systematic assemblage of parti-
cles to form masses, so that, III one
sense, it might be assumed that in
the mineral kingdom there is life and
growth, The active principle which
forms the crystal is indestructible.
If dissolved it may be caused to re-
appear in all its former likeness SO
long as there is present the necessary
elements.
THERE'S scarcely a substance but
that can be brought to a liquid or
gaseous state, and water is seldom
found which does not hold some
form of mineral in solution, and as
this liquid permeates the pores and
crevices and thus serves as a vehicle
to assemble different mineral salts
to be united through galvanic ac-
ton it must be one of the means of
ore formation, though not the prin-
cipal one. A far more eflectual meas
ure would be through the assembling
.of gases from a greater depth, evolv-
ed during sahterranean commissions,
attendant with electrical energy,
when innumerable fractures occur
and form channels for diffusion and
visitation to even the remotest and
interior recesses. After such origina-
ton and diffusion water could aid in
the great work by inbibing the
gaseous elements and salts, to later
give them out under favorable con-
ditions and thereby be the means Of
reconstruction. There can be little
room for doubt but that much of
our ores are reconstructed ones.
Such a conclusion would apply to
much of the Joplin district ore as
found there before the advent Of
deeper mining,-together with float
lead that was deposited in sinks or
basins which existed there, after
having been ground out of the rocks
in which it was originally contained
nearer the dome of the Ozark uplift
at the corner Of Iron, Madison and
St. Francis counties, Mo. and was
transportated by the extensive
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