Expanding Earth and declining gravity: a chapter in the recent history of geophysics
Although speculative ideas of an expanding Earth can be found before World War II, it was only in the 1950s and 1960s that the theory attracted serious attention among a minority of earth scientists. While some of the proponents of the expanding Earth adopted an empiricist attitude by disregarding t...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-05-01
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| Series: | History of Geo- and Space Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/6/45/2015/hgss-6-45-2015.pdf |