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Geophysik I / Geophysics I pp 258–287Cite as

Forces in the Earth’s Crust

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The Earth is a rotating celestial body. Its matter is subject to gravitation. If stresses other than hydrostatic pressure were altogether absent, its surface would be perfectly smooth and exhibit a simple geometrical form. However, everyone knows that the surface of the Earth is not perfectly smooth but exhibits a great number of disturbances. This fact must be the result of forces other than hydrostatic compression in the Earth’s crust and therefore requires a physical explanation.

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Scheidegger, A.E. (1956). Forces in the Earth’s Crust. In: Bartels, J. (eds) Geophysik I / Geophysics I. Handbuch der Physik / Encyclopedia of Physics, vol 10 / 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45855-2_10

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