The unquestioned certainties of modern seismology, the transmission of elastic waves through the globe to sensitive recording pendulums, are that the crust is 1,800 miles thick, that the core is a heavy ball of white hot fluid, and that its temperature at crustal contact has been estimated by Verhoogen at 2200° Centigrade. The deep crust is less dense than the core, and is commonly conceded to be basic heavy rock not unlike stony meteorites. The outside shell under oceans, and over three-quarters of the earth, is covered by basaltic lava, and wherever igneous rock has been formed by volcanic action, intrusive or extrusive black basic lava recurs as dikes and outflows.
ARMOR PLATE AT OCEANS
ARMOR PLATE AT CONTINENTS
EXTERIOR OF FUNDAMENTAL GLOBE TO WHICH ADJUSTMENT TENDS
CORE LIMIT TO WHICH ADJUSTMENT TENDS
VOLC. OCEAN CHAINS OF OCEAN VOLCANOES
VOLC. CONT. CHAINS OF CONTINENTAL BORDER VOLCANOES
On the page opposite is a diagram of a hypothetical globe section near the equator, showing oceans and continents in true surface ratio; fault block segments of rigid crust isostatically supported on a liquid core; sixteen volcanic partitions, oceanic and continental; and Stübel’s “armorplate” from pristine volcanic eruption. Possibly the profile is tetrahedral. My argument for this globe section is based on the following:
A globe of core, siliceous shell, and armorplate was formed by primitive volcanic eruptions.