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AFTER reading your résumé of Prof. Alphonse Favre's interesting experiments on the formation of mountains by lateral thrust, it occurred to me that it would be easy to devise a mode of experimenting which would more nearly correspond with what takes place in nature. In M. Favre's experiments the lateral thrust was simply in one direction. In nature it is in all directions.
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RANSOM, A. The Formation of Mountains. Nature 19, 121 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/019121c0
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