Closely related to the questions of secular contraction and the mechanics of crust movements are those vexed question of earthquakes, volcanism, the liquidity or solidity of the interior, and the rigidity of the earth's mass as a whole—all questions of the greatest interest, but still lingering on the battle-fields of scientific opinion.

— Robert Simpson Woodward

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