The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-06-25
WHY IS The NOUN?
Mass Of Motion Matter Made
Room for Our Oceans.
According to Learned Scientists eo'"e
5000 100000 Cubic Miles OF Mat
ter Was Hurled From Eaf1h
100000 Years Ago.

100000 Years Ago. g.
For the origin of our moon Id 5
nlaca's majestic nebular hypothesis \
needs slight modification, says inc {
Kansas City Star. Sir George II. Oar
win. in his theory of tidal evolution S
traces hack the earth-moon system 10 {
q hot. oblate sphere covered Win q I
solid crust some thirty-tive mlles
thick This as vet moonless planet l
may be pictured as whirllng upon ~
self with terrific speed in perlou VI
five of our hours. Tides created ny
tho sun and the acceleration OF rota-
ton caused a weakening or the ctn-
trifneal force, and at a critical polhl
this instability overcame graVlta'ion
and some 5,C00,O00,0O0 cubic miles VI
molten matter was sundered from .he
earth and hurled outward TO re'oi'o
in close proximity to the parefH
planet.
Now when we scan the earth atten-
lively for indications that MAY co'.
firm this origin we are cohliohteu
with many instructive facts. frol' W.
II Pickering has shown that II the
earth be viewed from a distance ia
space directly above a polnt l'Vvo
miles northeast of New Zealand, the
land areas that compass this waste OF
N almost
feet circle. This roughly circular
chasm. the Pacific, is more eloquent
of the creation epic of our moon than
written volumes.
In his inaugural address delivered
at Columbia university, New YORK, IN
1908 Prof. Albrecht F. X. Penck spoke
: on the geographical and geological
4 similitude between the eastern coast
, Of North America and the western
coast of Europe, as follows
y in very remarkable way these
two sides of the Atlantic repeat the
same structural features; there is an
g astonishing symmetry, as Ec"aru
suess has shown clearly. In SWEDEN
and Finland we find the same rouno-
~ ed and glaciated surface, the same
Ut numerous lakes, as in Canada. IL Is
% very interesting to see how the Appai
achian region ends at Newfoundland
. forming the projecting eastern corner
re If North America and just opposite
ia IN south Ireland, in south Wales ant
.. Cornwall and in Brittany the belt o
- The old Hercynian mountains OF Eu
a rome begins Marcel Bertrand main
ID tanned that we have here to deal VIII
A. the two ends of one very extenslV
~ belt of mountains which eXtende
Tie through the north Atlantic ocean.
sv Commenting on this part of the LEI
~ ture, Prof Andrew H. Patterson
w the University of North Carolina sale
TIT "prof Penck is evidently not consl
ISL ering this (tidaD theory at all IN n
lecture, and yet 1t seems what he n;
to saw lends a greater probability
tie the theory
mat the great oceans which GOV
INV the earth are permanent IN place
90 evident from the fact that the avera
oh height of the land above sea lever
about $3.50 feet, while the avera
we depth of the seas and ocean IS 1919
the feet. Thus the average depth or I
IN water is over six times the mean e
walton Of the land.
strong argument for the perr
,wn hence of the continents is the Il
an that no marine deposits OF any e
W ogic period extend over an aPpree
Gets hle norton of each continent 1
God should have been the case II Il
:h we're once covered with oceans
''' any length Of time and the failure
)lrlt such continuity of marine fossils
,lay proof Of the immunity OF the Il
,o,+ from past submersion.
io' Osmond Fisher has shown that
gam servations made with the pendu
SING on islands proved the suboceanic CT
To be both thinner and denser t
~ the crust under the continents A
Ople the moon had been hurled from
orr nresent ocean basins these la
.J would be thinner than the contine
e''0 crust, but would solidify and bee
hers, compact when the water vapor In
rreat air condensed and ran into the bas
To the silvery orb that illu
earth's dark nights, then, we owe
4, or only our tides, but our vast and
are oceans themselves. To her we
u,,4 also the more important contlne
0"''' areas on which high types of n
Ill ct malta could evolve. For without
hinu latter habitat we must ever have
!, mained-collectively as well as
'ii0'i yidually-of a very low order of
It 1t. tai development, a race of cold b
NUM- ed fishes, or at best amphibians.
49,. The ancient jewellers in Ar
W 'l'N boosted that their beatitlc race
st be into existence before the moon
not self, but they were probably 1gn'
49,, of the period they claimed for
'''' ancestry. They must needs
done mounted back in time some 500
that wears. in which case their race
no halIowed. indeed, by prelunar