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Volcanoes and the Earth's Crust

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MR. HOWORTH, in NATURE, vol. ix. p. 201, advances the following opinions:-That volcanoes are found neither in regions of elevation nor of subsidence, but on the boundaries between them; that the great continents are on the whole rising, and the beds of the great oceans on the whole sinking; and that the centres of elevation are in the circumpolar regions.

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    JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY

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MURPHY, J. Volcanoes and the Earth's Crust. Nature 9, 322–323 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009322e0

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