Evening star., 1949-05-27
Atomic Heot Once Melted
Forth. New Theory Holds
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wears sso ay~ Tax reAEfs4ns tosrshrs 81 graf
nanh~ss @: Na.sd p&stse}ra ss ;ns genera.
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IHmmlatI.s Heat
The radioactive elements II THIS sols3
earth. rafcl1At1Eg ttsrag abundance as Ekav
Sfrses taas al psvsn1 xoala savr sessrs led
at enormous Amc4nt ef heat by thsU as
lnirgrsaoas Ts4s heat wcala have h~Sa
cumulative he points eat ~ thai In Ahoas
4 eoe 600 900 wears wca4a6 have h~~n sui
nsient 10 met the planet Tarn TIE rapid
rotation ~oals have distributed ths heavy
core and l!ghi ahslls stary are found gn<sAy,
The cisaasesySiion es Uranium sss~tas
basic element In The stasnS hOne~ IN Ire
earths crust ~As grneFattrg 81 ieass ! nga
times as much hsAt eco 600 900 ysags ago
as at present, the calculations saew Cgcl-
nary uranium wks psu41aeank three sInaes as
much. Radio active potassium was swn-
Grating heat al aecut "a times the ps~srnt
rate
The calculations she's that the eAGtn
rocks probably have bern ~ttosen in their
present structures tos about } oeo zoe 900
scA,s
In isss than 20 wears The sea lsssi at Nsw
York appears TO have eeen raised nsAfty
four inches
In the previous 90 yeaIs the lneFeaSe tn
dieated by the United States Coast ana
0eodetle Survey measurements had e~sn
only about an inch
The same h generally true for q 600.
mile stretch Of Atlantic coast between Boa
ton and MaypoFt Fla There are s,fons
indications OF the sans phenomenon en the
Gulf Coast II Is = little sSs clear ior ths
Pacific Coast
This has Just been reported TO The Amer
lean Geophysieal unlon here by Df NJ A.
Mariner OF the Survey sian Since The cs-
scryatinns have extended over . lonE period.
he SAYS. 1t has been possible largely 10 elm.
mate the day by day sea level changes das
10 wind and weather and which are ssas.
modie all over the world
started about 1859.
The rather alarming indication Is that
sea level started TO 30 up RH around tis
North American coast about 1880 Previously
the increase had been 30 slight thai u may
not actually have been real The statistics
were diffcui To interpret But the nhcnom-
enon has been No pronounced since 1890 DT.
Mariner says. that II allows no other inter-
probation.
II cannot be determined whether the In
crease Ia due 10 more water in the ara OF 10
q sinking OF the coast line
The possibility that the Arctic and
Antarctic Ice sheets are melting faster than
Ia indicated by scattered observations al
explorers cannot be entirely discarded. the
report stresses. The situation il complicated
by the fact that along the Alaskan coast
there are some indications Of o faiiins sea
level or possibly a raising of the coast line.