Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — Life Under Pressure. [ARTICLE]

Life Under Pressure.

The bed of the Arctic seas is very fine and plastic, while in the other zones of the Atlantic the bed 1b covered with reddish mud and an accumulation of the remains of animals that lived in the surface waters, died, and slowly sank; The pressure of the sea lnoreases about one atmosphere to every ten meters, so every additional hundred meters adds the pressure of ten atmospheres. When deepsea fishes are brought to the surface they lose their scales, their teguments beccme brittle, and they are.so inflated by Internal distension caused by the lessened pressure that in many cases they burst asunder. —Harper’s Week- **•