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This theory of continental drift, though not universally accepted, goes far to explain the ring of active volcanoes and earthquake-prone mountain ranges that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. The original villain is a great mass of plastic rock that is slowly rising under the Atlantic. One hundred and fifty million years ago, all the continents were bunched together, but the rising rock current split them apart, moving North and South America away from Europe-Africa. The split has now grown into the Atlantic Ocean, and down through its center, keeping equidistant between the two continents, runs the mid-Atlantic ridge...
Arcs & Ranges. If the continents are moving away from each other across the Atlantic, they must be moving toward each other across the Pacific, because the earth is a sphere and they have nowhere else to go. As they move, their leading edges push against the crust of the ocean bottom, sometimes thrusting it down in deep trenches, sometimes bending it upward to form curving arcs of islands, like Japan. High mountain ranges like the Andes rear up behind the edges of the advancing continents, and where the rocks bend and break, lines of volcanoes spout their fire...
...from work. Suddenly the very earth cracked, roared and rolled. An amateur radio operator who was talking from his car to another radio ham in Seattle called out: "My God! What's happening?" The streets, he cried, were rippling like waves and the ground was pitching like an ocean. Streets split into gaping wounds, two of them 12 ft. deep and 50 ft. wide. Mrs. Jean Chance watched as "the earth started to roll. It rolled for five minutes. It slammed parked cars together. People were clinging to each other, to lampposts, to buildings." A 30-block section...
...wide-eyed enthusiasm of numerous sightings of abominable snowmen. They have seriously reported salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth, take on a heartlike shape...
...Surfing, an addition to the growing stable of magazines devoted to far-out leisure pursuits. West Coast Publisher Robert E. (Hot Rod magazine) Petersen counts on a two-ocean audience of U.S. surfing enthusiasts. An added dividend: photographs of female surfers...