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PROF. L. EGYED has recently summarized1 a number of hypotheses concerning the expansion of the Earth, and has suggested that the Earth's radius is expanding at a rate of 0.5–1.0 mm per year.
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MACDOUGALL, J., BUTLER, R., KRONBERG, P. et al. A Comparison of Terrestrial and Universal Expansion. Nature 199, 1080 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991080a0
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