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The ability to explain the macrotopography of the Earth, in terms of it being a cooling, contracting planet, obviously requires a great deal of scientific sophistication, and the history of how this was achieved by the latter half of the 19th century is the subject of this first chapter.
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Patron, T.R. (1986). A cooling, contracting Earth. In: Perspectives on a Dynamic Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4069-7_1
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