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Excerpt from Soils: Their Properties, Improvement, Management, and the Problems of Crop Growing and Crop Feeding
It has been calculated that if the earth were tunneled direct to the other side, miles would be traveled in making the journey. But a difficulty would be met in this endeavor: After going a few miles, the heat would be so intense that further progress would be impossible. For as we descend into the earth, after going a very little way, the temperature rises at the rate of 1 degree for every 50 feet, a rate that is universal over the earth's surface, and for the greatest depth attained.
From the known laws of the conduction of heat the conclusion follows that at a depth of 15 to 20 miles below the surface the earth is red hot, while the heat 100 miles deeper, if applied at the surface, would liquefy all mate rials at the surface crust. These known facts have led to an hypothesis that the interior of the earth is more or less ?uid, and that the crust is only a thin shell ?oating on the molten globe.
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