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IN his “Physical Geology,” second edition, p. 674, Prof. Green says: “The notion that the earth's contraction has been the cause of the displacement of the rocks and the elevations of the surface seems to have occurred first to Descartes (éd. française, 1668, p. 322).”
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DAVISON, C. History of the Contraction Theory of Mountain Formation. Nature 38, 30 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038030b0
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