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I. IT is usual to contrast the horizontal forces acting on the earth's crust with those that are vertical and to regard the latter as more fundamental and important. This attitude is apt to be misleading, although it rests on a foundation of fact, if it be true, as is generally believed, that most horizontal forces are ultimately to be attributed to the contraction on cooling of the earth's interior, which lets down the crust so that it has to accommodate itself to an area less extensive than that which it previously occupied.
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EVANS, J. Regions of Compression1. Nature 119, 15–17 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119015a0