What The Rocks Tell Mr.Tarling
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A study of the movements of the land masses of the South Pacific through the ages is being made by Mr D. Tarling, an Englishman, under a research scholarship pro vided by the Australian National University, Canberra. Mr. Tarling has already completed work m French Polynesia and the Cooks and was in Fiji in June. .
His work is based on the magne ic material cast from volcanoes which
aligned itself in a certain way before it solidified in ages past. In subsequent centuries the land masses have moved and the extent of that movement can be determined by studying the magnetic properties, of the rocks today.
Mr Tarling will make studies in Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Solomons.