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THE latter-day revival of interest in geological physics has led to a keen demand for experimental data, the absence of which has hitherto rendered futile most speculation in this domain. Our almost complete ignorance of the simplest physical constants of rocks and the rock- forming minerals is easy to account for. The kind of investigation required is both difficult and laborious, calling for skill and practice as well as the appliances of a well-equipped physical laboratory: and the geologist may lack either the capacity or the opportunity for such researches. On the other hand, the professed physicist, interested in the properties of matter from a more general point of view, prefers to work on materials of a more tractable nature than those with which the geologist is concerned.
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H., A. The Compressibility of Crystalline Rocks 1 . Nature 75, 451–452 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075451b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075451b0