A VANISHING SEA.
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A St. Petersburg message published in London states that the Russian 'naphtha industry seems to be threatened by a mysterious danger, difficult alike to explain or to displace. The Seismic Commission, working under the auspices of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, has been petitioned to investigate the fluctuations of the bed of the Caspian Sea, which has been shoaling rapidly of late, with the ■result that the naphtha industry.is being affected injuriously. The question actually befove the Commission ig whether the shoaling process has been caused by tha lowering of the level of the water, which is seemingly vanishing, or whether the shores of the Caspian are rising. A sub-commission, consisting of six specialists, including the director of the Imperial Observatory, has been appointed to study on the spot a problem which the representatives of the various oil firms regard as of the highest importance to indus trial Russia. A conjecture has been hazarded by some that the change of level results from the annual withdrawal of millions of tons of naphtha from the ground.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5804, 8 May 1912, Page 8
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178A VANISHING SEA. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5804, 8 May 1912, Page 8
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