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MR. WALLACE'S letters raise three separate difficulties: How can the interior of the earth be cooling faster than its surface? How can this surface be cooling so slowly (or not cooling at all) as it is assumed to be? and, How can the different rates of cooling of interior and surface account for the corrugations observed in the surface?
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HILL, E. The formation of Mountains. Nature 19, 289 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019289c0
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