...afford a decisive argument against the earth's interior liquidity." 5 But there remain the tides. " The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there...

...any issue that may here and there be opened for its outward escape " (as Poulett Scropo called it) ! the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land. The state of the case is shortly this: — The hypothesis of a perfectly rigid crust containing liquid...

...diminished. Sir Wm. Thomson says: "The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land 4 ." Mr George Darwin has 1 "Geol. Mag." Vol. vp 507. 2 "Problems of Eotary Motion." "Smithsonian Contributions,"...

...diminished. Sir Wm. Thomson says: "The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land4." Mr George Darwin has 1 "Geol. Mag." Vol. vp 507. * "Problems of Rotary Motion." "Smithsonian...

...different. The lastnamed eminent physicist says that unless the earth as a whole were extremely rigid, "the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the water of the ocean up and down with it, and there...

...and of the sun's and moon's attractions." It would yield, indeed, so freely to these attractions " that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean...it, and there would be no sensible tidal rise and full of water relatively to land." 5 Mr. George H. Darwin in the series of papers already referred...

...oceanic tides.2 He says that, " the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land." He concludes that the mass of the earth " is on the whole more rigid than a continuous solid globe...

...the strain, and would be subject to periodic deformations similar to oceanic tides.3 He says that, " the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there...

...yield, indeed, so freely to these attractions " that it would simply carry the waters of the осеип up and down with it, and there would be no sensible...tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land." G Prof. G. II. Darwin, in the series of papers already referred to, has investigated mathematically...

...the supposition that a molten nucleus underlies a superficial crust, Sir William Thomson says that the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there...