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" If the earth were composed of homogeneous matter its normal figure of equilibrium without strain would be a true spheroid of revolution; but if heterogeneous, if some parts were denser or lighter than others, its normal figure would no longer be spheroidal.... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 393
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911
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A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet ...

Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, Sir Henry Hubert Hayden - 1907 - 122 pages
...figure of equilibrium without strain would be a true spheroid of revolution ; but if hetero" geneous, if some parts were denser or lighter than others,...of figure, to which " gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body, irrespective of whether it be homo" geneous or not, I propose the name isostasy....
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Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Volume 18

Geological Society of America - 1907 - 1224 pages
...mutter its normal figure of < iniiliin mm without strain would be a true spheroid of revolution; but it heterogeneous, if some parts were denser or lighter...bulge, and where the denser matter existed there would l>ea tendency to mitten or depress the surface. For this condition of equilibrium of figure, to which...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...matter. Its normal figure of equilibrium, without strain, would be a true spheroid of revolution ; but if heterogeneous, If some parts were denser or lighter than others. Its normal flgure would no longer be spheroidal. Where the lighter matter was accumulated there would be a tendency...
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Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Volume 33

Geological Society of America - 1922 - 924 pages
...mutter its normnl figure of equilibrium without stniln would be n true spheroid of revolution: but If heterogeneous, if some parts were denser or lighter than others, its normal figure would be no longer spheroidal. Where the lighter matter was accumulated there would be a tendency to bulge,...
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Isostasy

William Bowie - 1927 - 300 pages
...heavier or lighter than others, the normal figure would not be spheroidal. In this connection he said: Where the lighter matter was accumulated there would...equilibrium of figure, to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body, irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not, I propose the name Isostasy. I...
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Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere

A. B. Watts - 2001 - 508 pages
...composed of homogeneous matter, its equilibrium figure would be a true spheroid of revolution; but if some parts were denser or lighter than others,...figure would no longer be spheroidal. Where the lighter material accumulated, he argued, there would be a tendency to bulge, and where the denser matter accumulated...
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