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MR. W. S. GREEN, like others of Mr. Mallet's supporters, takes wider ground than he did himself in his original paper. It is obvious that he regarded his experiments conclusive as to the amount of heat that could be produced by rock crushing His advocates, however, and he himself in his later papers, appeal to pressures within the earth enormously greater than those obtained by the mechanical contrivances used, and consider that proportionately greater heat may be evolved.
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FISHER, O. Source of Volcanic Energy. Nature 12, 434–435 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012434c0
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