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SIR W. THOMSON'S investigation of the bodily tides of an elastic sphere has gone far to overthrow the idea of a semifluid interior to the earth, yet geologists are so strongly impressed by the fact that enormous masses of rock have been poured out of volcanic vents in the earth's surface, that the belief is not yet extinct that we live on a thin shell over a sea of molten lava. It appeared to the author, therefore, to be of interest to investigate the consequences which would arise from the supposition that the matter constituting the earth is of a viscous or imperfectly elastic nature. In this paper these hypotheses were followed out, and the results were fully as hostile to the idea of any great mobility of the interior of the earth as are those of Sir W. Thomson.
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Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., December 14, 1976. pp. 107–9.
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SOME RESULTS OF THE SUPPOSITION OF THE VISCOSITY OF THE EARTH 1 . Nature 18, 265–266 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018265b0
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