| Science - 1906 - 1084 pages
...it is practically certain that the limiting depth is not less than 50 miles nor more than 100 miles. It is certain that for the United States and adjacent...more than two-thirds complete — perhaps much more. Internal variations of specific gravity to the extent of three per cent from the mean, both above and... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1906 - 470 pages
...each group covering a small region. Not a single group of 25 contradicts the conclusion just stated. "It is certain that for the United States and adjacent...more than two-thirds complete— perhaps much more. " The departure from perfect compensation may be, in some regions, in the direction of overcompensation... | |
| T. J. J. See - Earthquakes - 1907 - 156 pages
...each group covering a small region. Not a single group of 25 contradicts the conclusion just stated. " It is certain that for the United States and adjacent...the isostatic compensation is more than two-thirds complete—perhaps much more. " The departure from perfect compensation may be, in some regions, in... | |
| U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, John Fillmore Hayford - Earth (Planet) - 1909 - 192 pages
...United States have been so reduced by the isostatic compensation that they are less than one-twentieth as great as they would be if the continent were maintained...its depressed position by the rigidity of the earth. In making this estimate, the writer has also kept in mind that, even if the isostatic compensation... | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1907 - 570 pages
...each group covering a small region. Not a single group of 25 contradicts the conclusion just stated. It is certain that for the United States and adjacent...more than twothirds complete — perhaps much more. The departure from perfect compensation may be, in some regions, in the direction of over-compensation... | |
| Charles Kenneth Leith - Geology, Structural - 1913 - 202 pages
...United States have been so reduced by the isostatic compensation that they are less than onetwentieth as great as they would be if the continent were maintained...the rigidity of the earth. . . ." "It is certain, from the results of this investigation, that the continent as a whole is closely compensated, and that... | |
| 500 pages
...each group covering a small region. Not a single group of 25 contradicts the conclusion just stated. "It is certain that for the United States and adjacent...more than two-thirds complete — perhaps much more. " The departure from perfect compensation may be, in some regions, in the direction of overcompensation... | |
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