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SIR J. HERSCHEL thought that the earth's crust floats upon an ocean of molten matter, and that the washing of detritus from the land into the sea, by altering the relative weight of different portions of the shell, occasions a subsidence of the ocean's bed and an upheaval of the land, which may be either gradual and insensible, like the process of denudation, or spasmodic and by fits and starts producing earthquakes and sometimes volcanic eruptions.
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ANDERSON, J. Geological Subsidence and Upheaval. Nature 8, 223–224 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008223c0
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