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I CAN find no flaw in the reasoning on the dynamical question of the permanence of continents and oceans, in Mr. Starkie Gardner's letter in NATURE of December 5 (p. 103), by which he endeavours to show the universal “tendency for deep oceans to become deeper, and for mountain chains to grow into higher peaks.” But when he says it is opposed to no known facts, I wish to ask how it is to be reconciled with the fact of the general distribution of marine deposits over the face of the earth, so that every part of what is now land appears to have once been ocean?
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MURPHY, J. The Permanence of Continents and Oceans. Nature 41, 175 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041175a0
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