Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — Figure of the Earth. [ARTICLE]

Figure of the Earth.

Ata recent meeting of the Academy of Soiences, Paris, a paper was read on the secular variations of the mathematical fig. ure of the earth by M. Faye. Regarding the small action of such QiaMea m the Himalayas on the pendulum and the great attractive force often found at sea, M. Faye says that under seas the cooling of the globe proceeds more quickly anti deeply than under continents. The bottom of the first seas would thicken in advance of the dry crust and would press increasingly on the liquid nucleus, rais'ng the weak parte of the first crust, which were mostly around the North Pole. The water level would then rise on te Northern hemisKiere and fall on the Southern, and the lipsoid of revolution become a simple spheroid. With further cooling the basins of the Southern seas would have increasing attraction, and the waters would therefore gradually rise in tee Southern hemisphere, their surface of revolution returning to the ellipsoidal form, which MJaye alternate balancing movement determined byexceas of weight of maritime crusts and the points of less Resistance in the E -T* * to yi iß A nS^lyTtiSd?^J2ttjSu* < tS a ber