Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateD. Appleton, 1875 - 577 páginas |
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... North Atlantic incon- sistent with the Gravitation Theory . - Dr . Carpenter's Estimate of the Thermal Work of the Gulf - stream • CHAPTER XII . MR . A. G. FINDLAY'S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED . Mr. Findlay's Estimate of the Volume of the ...
... North Atlantic incon- sistent with the Gravitation Theory . - Dr . Carpenter's Estimate of the Thermal Work of the Gulf - stream • CHAPTER XII . MR . A. G. FINDLAY'S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED . Mr. Findlay's Estimate of the Volume of the ...
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... North - west of Scotland . - Ice - action in Ayrshire and Wigtownshire during Silurian Period . - Silurian Limestones in Arctic Regions . - Professor Ramsay on Ice - action during Old Red Sandstone Period . - Warm Climate in Arctic ...
... North - west of Scotland . - Ice - action in Ayrshire and Wigtownshire during Silurian Period . - Silurian Limestones in Arctic Regions . - Professor Ramsay on Ice - action during Old Red Sandstone Period . - Warm Climate in Arctic ...
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... NORTH - WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE BOULDER CLAY OF CAITHNESS . Character of Caithness Boulder Clay . - Theories of the Origin of the Caith- ness Clay.-Mr. Jamieson's Theory . - Mr . C. W. Peach's Theory .-- The proposed ...
... NORTH - WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE BOULDER CLAY OF CAITHNESS . Character of Caithness Boulder Clay . - Theories of the Origin of the Caith- ness Clay.-Mr. Jamieson's Theory . - Mr . C. W. Peach's Theory .-- The proposed ...
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... North and South . - South of England Ice - sheet . - Glaciation of West Somer- set . Why Ice - markings are so rare in South of England . - Form of Contortion produced by Land - ice . PAGE 456 CHAPTER XXIX . EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER ...
... North and South . - South of England Ice - sheet . - Glaciation of West Somer- set . Why Ice - markings are so rare in South of England . - Form of Contortion produced by Land - ice . PAGE 456 CHAPTER XXIX . EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER ...
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... North Greenland , have introduced a complete revolution of ideas in reference to geological climate . Those discoveries showed that our globe has not only undergone changes of climate , but changes of the most extraordinary character ...
... North Greenland , have introduced a complete revolution of ideas in reference to geological climate . Those discoveries showed that our globe has not only undergone changes of climate , but changes of the most extraordinary character ...
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Página 331 - ... been removed from the general surface in one year ; and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate of waste by selecting the Mississippi as our example, for that river drains a country equal to more than half the continent of Europe, extends through twenty degrees of latitude, and therefore through regions enjoying a great variety of climate, and some of its tributaries descend from mountains of great height. The Mississippi is also more likely to afford us a fair test of ordinary...
Página 535 - Now, the perihelion of the orbit is situated nearly at the place of the northern winter solstice ; so that, were it not for the compensation we have just described, the effect would be to exaggerate the difference of summer and winter in the southern hemisphere, and to moderate it in the northern ; thus producing a more violent alternation of climate in the one hemisphere, and an approach to perpetual spring in the other. As it is, however, no such inequality subsists, but an equal and impartial...