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Dear WM, I bring to your attention a quote I found in Shoemaker, E.M., 1962, Interpretation of lunar craters, in Physics and Astronomy of the Moon, Ed. Zdenek Kopal. Academic Press, N.Y. & London, pp. 283-359.

"It has been remarked that the majority of astronomers explain the craters of the moon by volcanic eruption — that is, by an essentially geological process — while a considerable number of geologists are inclined to explain them by the impact of bodies falling on the moon — that is, by an essentially astronomical process. This suggests that each group of scientists find the craters so difficult to explain by processes with which they are professionally familiar that they have recourse to a process belonging in another field than their own, with which they are probably imperfectly acquainted, and with which they therefore feel freer to take liberties."

(from Davis, W.M., 1926, Biographical memoir of Grove Karl Gilbert, 1843-1918. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. 21, 5th Mem., 303 pp.)–Bruce Julian

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