Word: crustal
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Swiss Academy of Science. Landing in Manhattan last month, he made news by promising to disclose a new theory to explain the twitchings that have changed earth's face. Last week he kept his promise. First with merciless logic he assailed the old thesis that earth's crustal movements represented the spending of terrestrial energy...
...forces," said Dr. Heim, "which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted the earth's crust . . . seem to be regarded as the result of the earth's energetic reserve. If so, each crustal movement should mean a lessening of the total reserve of earth's energy, so that succeeding . . . movements should be smaller than earlier ones. . . . This does not seem to be borne out by the facts...
Some" cosmic impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...