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IN 1897 Lord Kelvin delivered an address to the Victoria Institute on the age of the earth, Sir G. G. Stokes being in the chair. Incidentally, the address included theories of the origins of granite, basalt and continents, and touched on the question of the inclusion of gases in various rocks.
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HUNT, A. Lord Kelvin on the Origin of Granite. Nature 61, 391 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061391a0
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