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A comparison of the Earth with the Moon and other planets can help considerably in the solving of geophysical problems. Professor Cook deals with some of these problems in this article, which is a summary of the inaugural lecture he gave as professor of geophysics at Edinburgh on January 15.
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COOk, A. The Earth as a Planet. Nature 226, 18–20 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226018a0
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