The purpose of this paper, as its title indicates, is to show a possible application of the newly developed exponential formula of gravitation to the solution of certain geophysical problems. Among these problems are those dealing with the epeirogenic and orogenic movements of the Earth s crust in general, together with several particular aspects of these two great phenomena, for example, periodicity of mountain‐building, parallelism in oppositely situated coasts, “swelling” of ocean‐beds, concentration of earthquake occurrences in the regions of recent and present‐day mountain development, glacial periods, and also an allied astronomical problem—the explanation of the variations in the length of the day.
The inadequacy of physical science limits the attainment of ultimate truth because of (1) probable error of observation preventing accuracy of experimental verification and (2) the transition of quantity into quality on the basis of dialectical materialism.
The author's object is to present the result of his research for the past few years in the line of seismic prognosis on the basis of geodetic, astronomical, and seismo‐statistical observations, and to develop the ideas given in his preliminary exposition in the Transactions of 1943.
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