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THIS important datum, as arrived at on seismic evidence, has been referred to frequently in the pages of NATURE. Most readers, I think, will agree that the conflicting character of the results is discouraging. Within the last two or three years the average depth of the continental layer has varied from 12 to 60 km.!
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JOLY, J. The Thickness of the Continents. Nature 120, 620–621 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120620a0
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