KU professor finds glass objects
Earth spheres appear similar to moon discs
Glass spheres similar to those brought back from the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts have been found on earth by a University of Kansas geology professor.
H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, said, "I have been finding similar spheres in my research work in limestones that are dissolved in acid in order to extract microfossils."
Ireland said he had found the spheres in the acid residues of Silurian limestones all over the world for the last 35 years but he did not know what they were.
After he saw a publication in Science magazine that showed some of the spheres from the
moon, he knew what they were,
he said.
"It is obvious that geological conditions similar to that on the moon existed on the earth 425 million years ago." Ireland said.
"It is also quite possible that the microspheres could be the result of the impact of meteors which we know exist on the moon," he said.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. recently spent several days in Central America participating in ceremonies for the renewal of the cultural exchange between the University of Costa Rica and the University of Kansas.
Robert P. Cobb, director of international programs at KU, was with the Chancellor at the meetings. In El Salvador they met with representatives of the Organization of Central American States who are working for cooperative educational programs for the Central American countries. In Mexico City they met with a representative of the Ford Foundation.
Chancellor Chalmers said there were symbolic reasons for his desire to participate in the signing of the cultural exchange agreement.
Chalmers renews ties for cultural exchange
"I wanted to signify by my presence that the close relationship between the two universities, initiated by Dr. Rodrigo Facio Brenes and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and renewed by Rector Carlos Monge Alfaro and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, would continue, Chalmers explained.
"This is evidence," he said, "that volcanic activity occurred on the moon and within 50 feet of the lunar module."
He also said it proved without using instrumental data that the moon is very old.
"One of the great curiosities about the discovery of the spheres is that they have been found in marine sediments which means that they must have been carried to their place of deposition by wind," he said.
all of the spheres were associated with volcanic areas," he said.
Ireland said spheres similar to those found on the moon have been made in a laboratory in Lindley Hall by the State Geological Survey and similar spheres are on the market as reflectors for projection screens and road signs and markers at night.
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In the laboratory, he said, finely ground powder of quartz was dusted from a weight of three feet into a tube over a high
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Ireland said he had an arrangement with Edward Zellar, KU professor of geology and physics, who has requisitioned samples of moon rock from NASA to let him look at the sample for half a day.
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Chalmers said that during the past decade nearly 200 hundred students and more than 100 faculty members of the two universities had studied or taught in the exchange program.
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Ireland said that after the discovery of the similar looking spheres he started looking for the spheres and have found them in recent beds as young as 2 million years old.
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"On the moon," he said, "the spheres are all colors but on earth they are all clear."
"Equally important," Chalmers said, "I wanted to underline the commitment of the University of Kansas to international education. The University has, in addition to its agreement with the University of Costa Rica and its Latin American Studies program, a number of other study abroad opportunities and two National Defense Education Act centers in foreign language and area studies, the Soviet and Slavic Studies program and the East Asian Studies program.
Chalmers said that in spite of changing patterns of support, he fully expected that KU would continue its present programs as well as discover ways in which they might be strengthened and expanded.
"In either case," he said, "their origins were similar. The energy developed by a volcanic explosion or by the impact of a meteor would liquify the rock at either of those points.
"The material would be blown into the air and would form tiny globules which would solidify into glass microspheres before they struck the ground."
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