On the Temperature, Secular Cooling and Contraction of the Earth, and on the Theory of Earthquakes Held by the Ancients (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The Cause of Earthquakes, Mountain Formation and kindred phenomena connected with the Physics of the Earth, which explains the observed phenomena by the effects of water vapor accumulating beneath the earth's crust, and seems to be justified by the harmonious concordance of many facts not otherwise intelligible, it appears necessary to re-examine the foundations of the earlier reasoning.

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