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HEAR LECTURE
BY YALE MAN
Dr. Charles S. Schuchert Ad-
dresses Geological Society
Monday
Dr. Charles S. Schuchert, emeritus
professor of paleontology at Yale
university, noted geologist and strat-
igrapher and foremost authority on
the paleogeography of North Amer-
ica, addressed a large gathering of
gelogists and men interested in the
oil industry here Monday night at a
meeting of the Shreveport Geographi-
cal society.
Doctor Schurchert outlined the
trend on modern thought relating to
the origin of petroleum deposits. He
emphasized the importance of micro-
organisms as a source of oil.
Doctor Schurchert traced the de-
velopment of the paleogeography of
North America from earliest times
to the present, emphasizing Llanoris,
a huge ancient land mass which up
to Cretaceous times, he said, occu-
pied a large part of Mississippi, Lou-
isiana and Texas. He pointed out
how the denudation of this great
mountain region supplied the great
thicknesses of materials that now
make up the Ouachita and Arbuckle
mountains of Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas. He brought out the probable
origin and age of the Louisiana salt
deposits and the influence of Llanor-
is upon the structural features now
found in the oil fields of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas.
Dr. Schurchert has consented to
deliver another address tonight in
which he will discuss the fallacies
of Wegener's continental displace-
ment theory. This theory which has
recently been widely discussed by
gelogists, postulates the westward
migration of the continents whereby
the Americas have been separated
from Europe and Africa and drifted
westward to their present positions.
In this theory Wegener endeavors
to explain the origin of the Rocky
mountains and the Andes mountains
and many other features of the
earth's geologic history.
This meeting will be held tonight
at 7:30 o'clock in the city hall.