AGE OF THE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 15

AGE OF THE WORLD

Valuable natural scientific, and economic findings arc .expected, from research' in the laboratory of Dr. I-I. Biehard Seiwell, .-. curator of oceanography" and invertebrates, Buffalo Museum of Science. -Dr. Seiwell is engaged in examining and classifying ageold silt from the ocean bottom collected while he was on the yacht Carnegie, sent out by the Cernegie Research Institution of .Washington on a magnetic survey of the world. "In the greatest depth of tho ocean,, fragments of other worlds-are found" (Dr. Seiwcll told the "Christian Science Monitor"). "Outside the earth's atmosphere, planets and meteors are continually clashing, and as they clash particles are broken loose. A great many of these particles settle on the-earth,- but their identity is obscured in dust. In the deep parts of the ocean, where- there is nothing else to interfere, they may be collected in quantities sufficient to be studied." These extra-terrestrial particles and the skeletons of the microscopic animals which form the other constituent of the ocean bottom are being examined and classified, .for the first- time, by Dr. Seiwell. "Scientific interest lies in measuring tins .thickness of these deposits in order to make computations of the age of the earth," Dr. Seiwell contiuued. "A commercial aspect is that which concerns telegraph companies. They wish to learn how fast the matter accumulates, in order that they may avoid laying cables in regions where the Jieeuiriulations will cover thtm in time."