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IN Lord Kelvin's philosophical and justly celebrated paper on the secular cooling of the earth (Thomson and Tait's “Nat. Phil.,” vol. i., part ii., Appendix D), the assumption is made that the earth was once a fiery molten mass, liquid throughout, or melted to a great depth all round. He cites Bischof's experiments showing that “melted granite, slate, and trachyte all contract by something about 20 per cent, in freezing,” and continues:—
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SEE, T. Current Theories of the Consolidation of the Earth. Nature 72, 30–31 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072030c0
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