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Gravity Observations in India
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Gravity Observations in India

  • R. D. OLDHAM 

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THE importance of the bearing of a change in the force of gravity, if such could be established, on all problems connected with the physics of the earth, especially those of the origin of mountains, continents, and oceans, is sufficient justification for directing attention to certain peculiarities in the determinations which have been made at Debra Dun.

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  1. H. J. Couchman, Prof. Pap., Survey of India, No. 15, p. 2

  2. Records, Survey of India, vol. 2, 1913, p. 33.

  3. Rivista Maritlima, March 1922, Supplement, p. 73.

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