Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 196: what you’re looking at

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cH, xu1.] AMOUNT OF COMPRESSION. 179 This would make the radial contraction of the sphere, supposing the compression to be caused by the contraction of the matter beneath the crust, about 42 miles. Lastly, if we regard compression as a continental pheno- menon only, since the area of the land is -54ths of the whole area of the globe, the compression of this would be (Fy x 00105 or 0:0204, or about 2 per cent. The estimates we have now been making, inexact as they must be allowed to be, nevertheless go far to confirm our previous conclusion that the ocean basins are not caused by depressions in the upper surface of a crust of the same density as that beneath the continents, but that they are due to a greater density and general depression of the sub-oceanic crust. 12—2 GONG oOo SS comn