Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — SIZE OF THE SEA [ARTICLE]

SIZE OF THE SEA

Interesting Figure* Pertaining to tbs Waters of the Ocean. Here are a few facts about the sea for your scrapbook: The Pacific covers 68,000,000, the Atlantic 30,000,000 and the Indian ocean, Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000. To stow away th§- contents of the Pacific it would be necessary to make a tank one mile long, one mile wide and one mile deep every day for 440 years. Put in figures, the Pacific holds in weight 048,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. It would take about 1,000,000 years for all its water to pass over the falls of Niagara. The average depth of the Atlantic is not quite three miles. Its waters weigh 325,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and a tank to contain it woidd have each of its six sides 430 miles long. The figures of the other oceans are in the same startling proportions. It would take all the sea water in the world about 2,000,000 years to flow over Niagara. A tank to hold it all would have to measure nearly 1,000 miles along each es its sides.—N. Y, World. : ■ ]