The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Earthquake of 1822. CUL-DAR42.121. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).

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Earthquake of 1822

3 minutes previously at Valparaiso to St Jago Meyen found evident proofs both N & South of Valparaiso in confirmation of Mrs Graham at Coquimbo & Copiapò, thinks one elevation 40 ft.

Coast of Chile all Syenitic = banks of shells 40 & 50 ft Copiapò immense beds – Masses of minute [illeg] fragments, & amongst millions & millions Concholepas with gigantic Balanus covered pholas; Venus Dombeyi Calyptra & tracks form a kind of Cardium Pecten Mytilus & very many more.

Copiapò lines of caves, worn in bank of shells at different elevations

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