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... evidence on compressibility were incorporated in Bullen's Earth model B of 1950 , 8 including a preliminary estimate of the Earth's central density . Evidence from free Earth oscillations . On May 22 , 1960 , there occurred in Chile a ...
... evidence on compressibility were incorporated in Bullen's Earth model B of 1950 , 8 including a preliminary estimate of the Earth's central density . Evidence from free Earth oscillations . On May 22 , 1960 , there occurred in Chile a ...
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... evidence and data on the damping of seismic waves and nutation . When a is equal to unity , equation ( 10 ) is equivalent to the elasticoviscous model . But Jeffreys requires a to be near 0.2 , a difference that has far - reaching ...
... evidence and data on the damping of seismic waves and nutation . When a is equal to unity , equation ( 10 ) is equivalent to the elasticoviscous model . But Jeffreys requires a to be near 0.2 , a difference that has far - reaching ...
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... evidence Belief . In some of its uses , the word belief has an emotive overtone , as when a man speaks of belief in God , signifying thereby an element of trust in and esteem for the object . But most often the word is used without ...
... evidence Belief . In some of its uses , the word belief has an emotive overtone , as when a man speaks of belief in God , signifying thereby an element of trust in and esteem for the object . But most often the word is used without ...
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