Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 5

"Ar Thursday, Dec. 17, 1954 Honolulu Star-Bulletin A-3 Chunks From Earth's Mantle i i.uli irr mil. i ii.mii iimi ift-iy mm.mmsk jgc- V- -zXlr onolulu Rock of Ages He said Salt Lake Crater be a false age, resulting means that feeling is cer- has not been dated itself, from excess argon in the tainly true." but is about the same age rocks. It would also indicate that as Diamond Head, Koko Barnes said, however, "I Hawaii is a good place to Head and Punchbowl. am inclined tn helieve the drill test holes to studv They are approximately first theory, that these mantle materials, easily one million years old and rocks are really that old." and inexpensively, probably less, he said.

Island scientists have be- Barnes said the Austra- But the Australian sci- lieved for some time that lian team has been work- entists have produced a fig- the earth's mantle is closer ing three years on their lire topping one billion for to the surface here than rock-dating effort, the Salt Lake rocks. anywhere else. "We are also doing re- "So here we have rocks if the rock at Salt Lake search on the same rocks," 1.4 billion years old in an actually is from the man- he added, "but we are not area dated around one mil- tie, Dr. Barnes said, "it that far along yet." Salt Lake with Tripler Hospital in background Star-Bulletin Photo. non years, ne pointed out ims means tnere is a pretty good chance that it is mantle rock, he comment ed.

miMm "Another important thing," he said, "is that this is the only one of the eclogites checked out that 1 By HELEN ALTONN Rocks from Oahu's Salt Lake may be 1.4 billion years old actual solid chunks from the Earth's mantle. These are the findings of two geophysicists at the Australia National University in Canberra, reported here by Dr. Lynus Barnes of the University of Hawaii. If the findings are correct, it means that the Salt Lake rocks are more than 1,000 times older than are the volcanoes which created Oahu. Dr.

Barnes said the Australians, J. F. Lovering and J. R. Richards, checked a number of rocks from formations similar to those at Salt Lake Crater.

The upper mantle in which the rocks are believed to have originated is the layer beneath the Earth's crust. The Mohole project which may be located in Hawaii-will attempt to drill through the crust to the dividing line between the crust and the upper mantle. Dr. Barnes said that rocks of the type found in Salt Lake are known as eclogites, adding: "There has been some discussion for years that these materials are not formed of molten lava, but represent rocks as they are in the mantle, picked up by lava and carried along en tote." Dr. Barnes, a geochem-ist, is doing research at the Institute of Geophysics to determine the age of the Hawaiian Islands and how MM TO A for the li mnrai wn rnr-Ttr-rl 711 1 1 1 aim Ilastt mmimmritte (CDnirnisitmniais Sungg gives that old a date in comparison with the age of its location.

"This fits in nicely with the theory that the lava at the surface in the Hawaiian Islands is different from lava at all other places." Barnes said studies at the institute have shown that Island lava "differs slightly, but this slight difference is very important, from lava found on the surface anywhere else -in the world. "The chemical composition of trace elements is different and it is consistently different He emphasized that the Australian findings aren't absolute proof that the Salt Lake rock is from the mantle. Lovering and Richards advance that as one idea. But they also suggest that the 1.4 billion date might zi SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS handblown crystal bases, in hour-glass form, designed for stability, snap-on lids of finest stainless. 3.95 set handblown crystal bases, in hour-glass rrn' designed for stability, snap-on l.ds tr0 jWlXV3 In IM SET OF 4 STEAK KNIVES i I Ml I "ziSw 111 with razor-sharp Henckels II I blades, in walnut case.

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