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DE TURVILLE1 has suggested that the Earth is gaining hydrogen from the Sun at the rate of 1.5 tons a second, and points out that this rate of accretion will account for all the hydrogen in the oceans in the course of 3 × 109 years. His idea is that the geomagnetic field captures the protons of an incident solar wind.
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HARRISON, E. Terrestrial Accretion from the Solar Wind. Nature 191, 1182–1183 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911182b0
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