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IN the interesting article “On the Gradual Rise of the Land in Sweden” (NATURE, March 21, pp. 488–92), Nordenskiöld arrives at the conclusion that the small alterations of the relative level of sea and land which observation proves have taken place in Sweden, are due to movements of the land, not to fluctuations of the sea-level. On the other hand, he contends that the extensive horizontal stretches of marine strata found in many places on the earth's surface at heights measured by thousands of feet above the sea-level indicate fluctuations of level in the sea itself. This is certainly reversing the order of things as believed in by most geologists. It is also suggested that the fluctuations of sea-level are due to alternate increase and decrease of the volume of the sea, arising from gaseous and fluid additions from outer space or loss thereto, the alternate gains and losses balancing one another over long periods.
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READE, T. Will Fluctuations in the Volume of the Sea account for Horizontal Marine Beds at High Levels?. Nature 39, 582 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039582b0
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