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AT the Editor's request I contribute a few remarks Mr. Brooks's letter. The suggestion that tidal friction might be a cause of changes in the distribution of land and water is not new. It will be found a “Note” in NATURE of April 25, 1889 (vol. xxxix., 613), where it is attributed to M. A. Blytt; and that may not be its first appearance. The character the changes is that indicated by Mr. Brooks, but the mechanism by which they are effected is a little different. The hypothesis of a crust riding more or less freely on a nucleus is unnecessary, and difficult reconcile with well-established results. Again, the frictional stresses do not operate directly to cause a flow of material towards or away from the poles, hut indirectly by diminishing the speed of rotation.
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LOVE, A. Tidal Friction and Ice Ages. Nature 94, 254–255 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094254b0
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