GS B. K. EMERSON — TETRAHEDRAL EARTH: INTERCONTINENTAL SEAS 



the arching of the continents by tangential pressure in accord with the 

 law of least action. 



In most cases we find land at one extremity of any diameter opposed 

 by water at the other — a peculiarly tetrahedroid arrangement. This is 

 neatly illustrated by the figure below where the antipodal land is super- 

 imposed on a common map of the earth. 



Again, all deforming agencies depending on rotation are at a minimum 

 at the poles and a maximum at the equator. The tetrahedroid pecu- 

 liarities would then be best preserved in the polar regions. Thus we 



Jm./W 



Figure 4. — Map of the Earth. 



Showing that, with the exception of the apex of South America, land and water are symmetrically 



antipodal to each other. From Gregory. 



find the polar ocean with a depth of two and a half miles, as determined 

 by Nansen, and bordered by broad lowlands sloping gradually beneath 

 the waters around most of its extent, with two oceans extending south- 

 ward at two corners, and at the third a deep depression — the Aralo- 

 Caspian area, partly below sealevel and an ocean in reality in the Ter- 

 tiary — connecting with the Indian ocean. 



In the south we find the three-lobed Antarctic continent and the 

 southward triangular prolongations of the other three elevations more 

 nearly equidistant than the corresponding central portions and with the 

 three broad oceans narrowing northwardly between them. A small ele- 

 vation of the drift covered bank on which Iceland stands would com- 

 plete the apex of the Atlantic. The southward transfer of the ocean 



