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AS a contribution to the International Geophysical Year, a group composed of Canadian, American and British oil interests and independent geophysical contractors has recently carried out a large-scale seismic refraction experiment in order to measure the thickness of the Earth's crust, or depth to the Mohorovičić discontinuity, in the Albertan Plains of western Canada.
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RICHARDS, T. Measurement of the Thickness of the Earth's Crust in the Albertan Plains of Western Canada. Nature 182, 384–385 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182384a0
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