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ARE THE CONTINENTS DRIFTING APARTI

In the last half-century there have been many additions to knowledge of the crust of the earth and, ita distribution into land and writes water, mountain, valley, and plain, the Scientifle correspondent of the Times Interesting of

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America to bo going west a little March, will be subject to rent. than Europe, at Greenland faster either. But at the British Association last year the Astronomer-Royal for meating

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Deep sea explorations have dispelled the old notions of a constant interchange be tween continent and ocean, and have given little countenance to the foundered continent theories devised to explain the present dis- tribution of animals and planta

the great mountain ranges, and observations on gravity, have led to the conclusions that these elevated regions have generally lower density than the flatter portions of an Austrian the 800 crust. Eduard Suesa, an .

of world-wide repute, ho died before the war, brought forward's well. founded theory of

to

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land and water. He believed the crust to consist of a superficial and lighter layer, which he called the Sal, and a deeper and denser layer, the Sims. He sought to et- plain the larger features of topography by the respective behaviours of these two! substances under strains, stresses and denudation.

Wegener supposes the land-masses, with their submerged fringing shelves to be pat ches of a lighter but more rigid rock, float ing and moving on a denser and more plastic material, in the fashion that a rigid but lighter of iron might fast and

hier but plantio bed lip on a

of the lighter and more Reimagines material to have formed, an * almost continnonă patch at the end of the covering about one

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then

Com picture

half of the Carboniferous influence of a logical period; - Under the

has become divided inte

but place in the fashion of a pasted on-wood,

a fret saw. Apil out These pieces are slowly druzing apart, slip- over the denser but mere Albatic layer of thecrust which forms chiefly the bod of the oceans. He thinks that or fattening out the mountain ridges and taking into account the submerged, continental, fringe, ba can recover the original contours, and that ther the reparated continents fit back into their original places. Moreover, just as the colours ind-patterns on the separate pieces of a Haocted man tanko coherent pattern when placed rightly together, so the fossils, the geological folds, and the signs of glacis

unintelligible

elligible when spart become or derly when filed

OBJLATIONS TO THE WIGENER THEORY. - The objections to Wegener's theory, from fundamental criticisims of his pical speculations are chiefly matter of detail. It is admitted that the eastern ourtours of the Americas show a remark- able congruity with the western shores of Africa-Edropo; a glance at the shows that. There are similar casy.

Ements of Australia-Africa. If a 29

supposes the South Pole wandered frealy over the original landmass, the gia Premions of Australia Trelisciated

• Bootland can be made to conform, with

and South America can be brought to

Bo alsa

the Caledonian mountain

folds

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those of Newfoundland, the Armorican of Europe with the Appalachian folds North Americs, the African folds of the Gulf Gaines with similar formations at Cape St, Roque in Brazil--and so forth. Many stran ge resemblances of living and fossil orgau-

ems can be explained.

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Bat the alterations of the contours of the continents by taking into account the enbmerged fringes, any the critica Bay, capriciously reckoned by Wegener-fan- tastic explanations of the Babmerged banka which do not fit his theory are given, Mixi allowances for flattening out mountain - 120- a matter of opinion Regions of 2ft the theory are the most favourable passed over lightly, and view is taken by him of geological forma- tions and fossil remains. Bat oven it, an seems probables, Wegener's theory does not Farvive, it has had the signal merit of bring- ing together many of the separate modes of exploring the present and past history of

which do

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