Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Hidden Seas. [ARTICLE]

Hidden Seas.

In boring for oil, it is a common experience for the drill to strike enormous flows of salt water. Formerly this salt water was supposed to be rain water, which soaked through beds of salt on its way down to some chasm in the bowels of the earth, says Rochester Union and Advertiser. The latest scientific opinion is inclined to believe hat the salt water comes from prehisoric oceans, buried in the earth by -eologic changes, in much the same .ay that buried forests gave rise to he coal beds. These hidden oceans re not conceived as lying in a subtermean space or hollow, but as filling he billions on billions of crevices in eds of porous rock.