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V.—Some Physical Questions Connected with Theories of the Origin of Mountain Ranges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. Mellard Reade
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Mr. A. Vaughan has honoured with a criticism my exposition of the physical principles upon which my Theory of the Origin of Mountain Ranges is founded, which appearedinthis MAGAZINE last May.

Had it not been that much of what I have written seems to have been misapprehended, I should probably have refrained from comment and left the two papers to speak for themselves.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1894 , pp. 413 - 414
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1894

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page 413 note 1 GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 07, 1894, pp. 312–320.Google Scholar

page 413 note 2 Ibid. pp. 203–214.

page 413 note 3 Origin of Mountain Ranges, p. 125.

page 414 note 1 If we look upon this shell as a spherical boiler of steel 30 miles thick and of the diameter of the Earth, dependent only upon its tensile strength, a pressure of steam of half a ton to the square inch would burst it. It is questionable if such a shell of steel could by shrinkage exert an effective pressure of one quarter of a ton per square inch on the materials of the interior of the Globe.