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Do Palaeogeographic Data support the Expanding Earth Hypothesis?

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THE question of the contraction, stability or expansion of the Earth during geological time is one of the basic problems of the geosciences.

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VEIZER, J. Do Palaeogeographic Data support the Expanding Earth Hypothesis?. Nature 229, 480–481 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229480a0

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