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FOR years geodesists have anxiously awaited the securing of accurate gravity observations at sea for use in the determination of the shape of the earth and in testing the theory of isostasy. The gravity observations made at sea by Hecker, Briggs, and Dufheld were a good step forward in this important work, but their results were not of the required degree of accuracy. They did, however, encourage us to believe that the problem would be solved in the not distant future.
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Proc. First Pan-Pacific Scien. Conf., Honolulu, Hawaii, 1921, Spec. Pub. No. 7, Bishop Museum, p. 885.
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BOWIE, W. Gravity Observations on the Indian Ocean and the Results of their Isostatic Reduction. Nature 114, 930–931 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114930a0
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