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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Local strains and pressure within the rocks of the earth's crust.
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The consequences of these conditions must be the recumbence of the folds formed under the crust-stress, and their
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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