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IN a notice of my Glasgow lecture on this subject (NATURE, Sept. 5, 1931, p. 419) occurs the passage: “Amongst other instructive conclusions are that ‘we may regard the Pacific crust as being like that of the continents’ (p. 570)”. As I have already received several invitations to justify this alleged “conclusion” I wish to point out that what I actually wrote was: “we may therefore regard the Pacific crust as being like that of the continents, but with gabbro passing down into amphibolite in place of the sialic upper layer”.
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HOLMES, A. Radioactivity and Earth Movements. Nature 128, 496 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128496e0
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