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THE literature of geology has grown so immense that no man can be familiar with all of it, particularly when it refers to another continent than one's own, yet it comes as a surprise to a Canadian to find eminent Old World geologists still referring to the nebular hypothesis as an established fact of geological history. A few weeks ago Prof. J. W. Gregory suggested that life began on mountains, since these were the first parts of the earth's crust to cool to a suitable temperature, and more recently Prof. Joly, in discussing the age of the earth, assumes the truth of the nebular hypothesis, though he admits that “there was indeed some scanty sedimentation in Archæan times.”
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COLEMAN, A. Geology and the Nebular Theory. Nature 109, 775 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109775a0
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