Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Everyone—all the geologists, at any rate—had known about the Kiowa Fault for years. That was before there was anything very interesting all even the professionals were interested in knowing. There was never so much as a landslide to bring the Fault to the attention of the general public. It was still a matter of academic interest when in the late '40s geologists speculated on the relationship between the Kiowa Fault and the Conchas Fault farther south, in New Mexico, and which followed the Nor was there much in the papers a few years later when it was suggested that the Niobrara Fault (just inside and roughly parallel to By the mid sixties it was definitely established that the three Faults It is not really surprising that it took so long to figure out the connection. The population of the states affected was in places as low as five people per square mile! The land was so dry it seemed impossible that it could ever be used except for sheep-farming. It strikes us today as ironic that from the late '50s there was grave concern about the level of the water table throughout the entire area. Newspapers in the mountain states gave it a few inches on the front a dust volcano? Unusual, they knew, but right on the Kiowa Fault—could headlines, and some papers even left off the question mark. It may seem odd that the simplest explanation was practically not mentioned. Only Joseph Schwartzberg, head geographer of the Department of the Interior, wondered if the disturbance might not be a settling of the Kiowa Fault. His suggestion was mentioned on page nine or ten To excuse the other geologists, it must be said that the Kiowa Fault Still, it was only a theory. It had to be proved. As the tremors grew Edison were shaken to pieces by incredible earthquakes, whole bus- and for their university and government department to approve budgets. They found, of course, that Schwartzberg had been perfectly correct. They found themselves on the scene of what was fast becoming the most violent and widespread earthquake North America—probably the world—has ever seen in historic times. To describe it in the simplest East, where sharp reports and muffled wheezes told of continued buckling and dropping, the earth trembled downward. Atop the new Dry earth churned like mud, and rock shards weighing tons bumped and rolled about like pebbles as they shivered and cracked into pebbles themselves. "It looks like sand dancing in a child's sieve," said the normally impassive Schwartzberg in a nationwide broadcast from the scene of disaster. "No one here has ever seen anything like it." And "Get out while you can," Schwartzberg urged the population of the affected area. "When it's over you can come back and pick up the pieces." But the band of scientists who had rallied to his leadership privately wondered if there would be any pieces. Land west of the Fault was holding firm, though Denver had recorded everywhere east of the Fault, to almost twenty miles away, the now-familiar lurch and steady fall had already sent All mountain climbing was prohibited on the Eastern Slope because of the danger of rock slides from minor quakes. The geologists went home As the Fault moved north and south, new areas quivered into unwelcome down. They danced "like sand in a sieve" dry, they boiled into rubble. By 23 September the Fault was active well into Wyoming on the north, Tremendous fissures opened up perpendicular to the Fault, and a general On the actual scene of the disaster (or the scenes it is impossible to speak of anything this size in the singular) there was a horrifying assured that everything possible is being done." But what could be done, with his state dropping straight down at a mean rate of a foot a day? Soon the Missouri began slowly slipping away westward over the slowly floods, in the usual sense. The water moved too slowly, spread itself with no real direction or force. But the vast sheets of sluggish water and jelly-like mud formed death-traps for the countless refugees now Perhaps the North Platte disaster had been more than anyone could take. 193 people had died in that one cave-in. Certainly by 7 October it had to be officially admitted that there was an exodus of epic proportion. Nearly two million people were on the move, and the U. S. was faced bell. It was simply the tortured rock of the substrata giving way. The second phase of the national disaster was beginning. wake the earth to the north "just seemed to collapse on itself like Then, as ominous creakings and groanings of the earth announced the through the night. The earth continued its descent, eventually tipping thirst of the soil temporarily broke the furious charge. Washington announced the official hope that the Ozarks would stop the Despite hopeful announcements that the wave was slowing, had virtually stopped after inundating Oklahoma City, was being swallowed up in the rescuers on the cliffs along what had been the west bank of the Pecos River afterwards recalled the hiss and scream like tearing silk as the water broke furiously on the newly exposed rock. It was the most terrible sound they had ever heard. "We couldn't hear any shouts, of course, not that far away and with all down with his State. Daniel Bernd of Lincoln, Nebraska, was washed up half-drowned in a cove Mrs. Creeth when she afterwards appeared on a popular television spectacular. Her rural good-humor undamaged by an ordeal few women can ever have been called on to face, she added, "We sure wondered why flushes never came out right. Jimanettly, we'd left the king of hearts behind, in the rush!" But such lightheartedness and such happy endings were by no means typical. The world could only watch aghast as the water raced north under the shadow of the cliffs which occasionally crumbled, roaring, into the roaring waves. Day by day the relentless rush swallowed what along what is roughly the present shoreline of our inland sea, it was estimated that over fourteen million people had lost their lives. No one could even estimate the damage to property almost the entirety of eight states, and portions of twelve others, had simply vanished came to America. Today, nearly one hundred years after the unprecedented—and happily unrepeated—disaster, it is hard to remember the terror and despair of those weeks in October and November, 1973. It is inconceivable to think of the United States without its beautiful and economically essential What would the United States have become without the 5600-mile coastline of our inland sea? It is only within the last twenty years that any but the topmost layer of water has cleared sufficiently to permit a really extensive fishing industry. Mud still held in suspension by the restless waves will not precipitate fully even in our is directly ameliorated by the marine heart of the continent. Who today could imagine the United States without the majestic vied favorably with such giant systems as the Amazon and the Ganges. The political situation has long been a thorny problem. Only tattered remnants of the eight submerged states remained after the flood, but in the continuing anomaly of the seven "fringe States" represented indistinguishable from their neighboring states. Fortunately it was decided some years ago that Oklahoma, only one of the eight to have completely disappeared, could not in any sense be considered to have a continuing political existence. So, though there estate, the state has in fact disappeared from the American political scene. But this is by now no more than a petty annoyance, to raise a smile when the talk gets around to the question of State's Rights. Not even the tremendous price the country paid for its new sea—fourteen million dead, untold property destroyed—really offsets the asset we enjoy Unimaginable too would have been the general growth of population axis of world communication, a population explosion was touched off of

<question>:
Why was the idea of Joseph Schwartzberg regarding the explanation for Kiowa Fault not recognized largely by newspapers?

<options>:
A He lacked the credentials needed for such a proclamation
B His information was disproven very early on.
C His theory lacked the dramatic effect that was desired
D He was not dignified enough to receive the recognition

<answer>:

C