THE AGE OF THE EARTH.
SCIENTIST SPEAKS LIGHTLY OF MILLIONS OF YEARS. {By Eleotpio Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. jijfio • London, June 19. Mr Arthur Holmes (? Joseph Austin Holmes, of the United States Geological Survey) a distinguished geologist, using radium as a means of calculation, arrives at some interesting conclusions. He estimates that the carboniferous period of the earth's existence must have lasted 340,000,000 years; the Devonian 370,000,000 years; the pre-Cambrian 900,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 years; the OrdvicianSilurian 43,000,000 years. In addition to these there is the enormous period since the carboniferous age.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 23 June 1914, Page 5
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