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V.—Change of Form by Expansion as an Element in Mountain-Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Some critics of my theory of the “Origin of Mountain Ranges” appear to have strangely lost sight of one of the essential principles upon which it rests. This seems to have arisen through their attention having been too much engrossed with what I have said on the subject of cubical or voluminal expansion.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1896

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