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AN account of an experiment to determine the rigidity of the earth was published in the Astrophysical Journal and in the Journal of Geology, March, 1914. This gave, the ratios of the amplitudes of tides observed in N-S and E-W pipes to the amplitudes computed for the same pipes on the assumption of a perfectly rigid earth as 0.523 and 0.710 respectively.
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MICHELSON, A., GALE, H. The Rigidity of the Earth. Nature 104, 114 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104114a0
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