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THE reviewer of “The Origin of Mountain Ranges in NATURE (Feb. 17, p. 361) says, in reference to my views on the contraction hypothesis:—“He seems to hold that, according to the contractionists, crumpling is produced by unequal contraction in the solid shell itself, which certainly is not their view. And he entirely omits all reference to the one fact which is the life and soul of the hypothesis, that the earth's crust is not strong enough to stand by itself without support, a fact which admits of rigid mathematical demonstration.”
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MELLARD READE, T. “The Origin of Mountain Ranges”. Nature 35, 463 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035463a0
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