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II.—On Convection Currents in the Earth's Interior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. Fisher
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In this Magazine for November Mr. Mellard Reade referred to the difficulty of imagining the adequacy of any known force to accomplish such tremendous effects as to produce overthrusts like those which have been lately described as occurring in the North-West Highlands, and he consequently appears to be a little doubtful of the reality of the phenomenon. I think, however, that the conclusion of so many competent field geologists must be accepted, and that our theories of mountain-building must be made to fit the facts rather than the facts the theories.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1909 , pp. 8 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1909

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page 8 note 1 Survey Memoirs, The Geological Structure of the N.W. Highlands of Scotland, 1907.

page 8 note 2 Physics of the Earth's Crust, 2nd ed., p. 321.

page 9 note 1 Nature, February 11, 1897.

page 9 note 2 American Journal of Science, 1906.

page 10 note 1 Nature, February 27, 1896, also May 12, 1898.

page 10 note 2 British Association Report, 1903 and 1906.

page 10 note 3 Burrard, Colonel, Phil. Trans. vol. clv, A 394, p. 294.Google Scholar

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