ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.
NEW THEORY PROPOUNDED. PROFESSOR CHAMBERLIN’S STUDY After twenty-three years spent in testing his theory of the origin of the earth, known in science as the “planetesimal hypothesis,” Mr Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, emeritus professor of geology at the University of Chicago, who is 84 years of age, has announced the results of his study. They bear out his theory that the earth, while it came from the sun “in vagrant pieces,” was never in a molten condition, but grew up slowly in a solid state with a core composed of metallic and stony material. Professor Chamberlin has tested a long list of the peculiarities of the earth’s structure, and these he cites in support of lijs theory, which, he believes, will gradually displace in the scientific world the nebular hypothesis, t«e theory of Laplace and that of the astronomer-geologists of 100 years ago.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5128, 20 May 1927, Page 4
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146ORIGIN OF THE EARTH. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5128, 20 May 1927, Page 4
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