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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... Professor Dove on Normal Tem- perature . - Temperature of Equator and Poles in the Absence of Ocean - currents . - Temperature of London , how much due to Ocean- currents 23 CHAPTER III . OCEAN - CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION ...
... Professor Dove on Normal Tem- perature . - Temperature of Equator and Poles in the Absence of Ocean - currents . - Temperature of London , how much due to Ocean- currents 23 CHAPTER III . OCEAN - CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION ...
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... Professor Haughton . - Tree dug up by Sir E. Belcher in lat . 75 ° N .. • 258 CHAPTER XVII . FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS . - REASON OF THE IMPERFECTION OF GEOLOGICAL RECORDS IN REFERENCE TO THEM . Two Reasons why so little is known of Glacial ...
... Professor Haughton . - Tree dug up by Sir E. Belcher in lat . 75 ° N .. • 258 CHAPTER XVII . FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS . - REASON OF THE IMPERFECTION OF GEOLOGICAL RECORDS IN REFERENCE TO THEM . Two Reasons why so little is known of Glacial ...
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... Professor Geikie and Mr. James Geikie on a Glacial Conglomerate of Lower Carboniferous Age . - Professor Haughton and Professor Dawson on Evidence of Ice - action during Coal Period . - Mr . W. T. Blanford on Glaciation in India during ...
... Professor Geikie and Mr. James Geikie on a Glacial Conglomerate of Lower Carboniferous Age . - Professor Haughton and Professor Dawson on Evidence of Ice - action during Coal Period . - Mr . W. T. Blanford on Glaciation in India during ...
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... Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition . Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated . - Observed Thickness no Measure of mean Thickness.- Deposition of Sediment principally along Sea - margin . - Mistaken In- ference ...
... Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition . Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated . - Observed Thickness no Measure of mean Thickness.- Deposition of Sediment principally along Sea - margin . - Mistaken In- ference ...
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... Professor Geikie's Suggestion . - Professor Geikie and B. N. Peach's Observations on East Coast of Caithness . - Evidence from Chalk Flints and Oolitic Fossils in Boulder Clay 435 CHAPTER XXVIII . NORTH OF ENGLAND ICE - SHEET , xiv ...
... Professor Geikie's Suggestion . - Professor Geikie and B. N. Peach's Observations on East Coast of Caithness . - Evidence from Chalk Flints and Oolitic Fossils in Boulder Clay 435 CHAPTER XXVIII . NORTH OF ENGLAND ICE - SHEET , xiv ...
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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...