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II.—The Extension of the Mellard Reade and C. Davison Theory of Secular Straining of the Earth to the Explanation of the Deep Phenomena of volcanic Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. J. Johnston-Lavis
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For many years my thoughts have been occupied with the phenomena of eruption at or near the surface, and although a detailed study of the Vesuvian volcano and its products gave me the key to the mechanism of eruption and injection of igneous matter near the surface, I was always at a loss to understand, on the older theories, how lava could ever start upwards in fissures

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 6 , June 1890 , pp. 246 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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page 246 note 1 These conclusions and propositions, contrary to my wishes, were not allowed to appear in the memoir at the time it was published, Q.J.G.S. Feb. 1884.