Note 18 — Chapter VII · CENTRAL CHILE:—STRUCTURE OF THE CORDILLERA.
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Nearly opposite to this escarpment, there is another corresponding one, with the strata dipping not to the exactly opposite point, or S.W., but to S.S.W.: consequently the two escarpments trend towards each other, and some miles southward they become actually united: this is a form of elevation which I have not elsewhere seen.