Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-09-12 | Page 8 | German Geologist Thinks America is Floating to West

, GERMAN GEOLOGIST THINKS AMERICA IS FLOATING TO WEST LONDON, fspt. 11 (Br A. P. H ths American continent drlfnn wrstwsnl and slowly leavtns; Europe bvhlndr It Is, If ths theory propounded pro-pounded to ths savant of ths Brit. Ua association at Hull by ths German Ger-man fpoloaist Wegener Is eorrsct. Dr. Wirner declrms that the ts-rlous ts-rlous continents originally wera Joined st the poles, but that now they era slowly drifting away from the poles and from east to west. America Is moving westward faster than Europe, Eu-rope, he said, and Greenland stIM faster than America. He added that this movement had been proven by experiments St observatories In Europe Eu-rope and st Washington. In the discussion which followed. Professor Turner of Oxford said that there wss no astronomical observation observa-tion worthy of serious consideration In support of Wegener s theory.