Mercur Miner | 1907-10-23 | Page 3 | The Age of the Earth

The Afje of the Earth. ' Although It Is not considered pollto to Inquire too closely Into tho oro of u lady, tho scientists will keep bother-liiK bother-liiK Mother Knrth about hers. Dr. R. 1-'. Scharff of tho Dublin musetim believes be-lieves that the oldest mid most permanent per-manent forms of tho earth's surface can bo ascertained hy a study of the distribution of the picsent forms of animal life. Ho finds that unlmalg found cast of tho Rdckles were com purutUoly unknown on the western Blopes until modern times, Hut almost al-most Identical forms uru found In Ku-tope Ku-tope Austria particularly. This leads to the belief that at some time this continent had bcun ci ect ed with Kurnpn by n strip of land und that tho part of North America now west of tho Rocky mountains had been submerged, Ho ulso declines It pmv en that North and South A merit a woro not Joined together until tho mid dlo of tho tertiary period, many thou sandB of yoars uru, hut rooIdkIcuIIv speaking, nry recently.