Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... 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 Theory . - Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated ...
... 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 Theory . - Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated ...
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... THE ICE IN NORTH- WESTERN EUROPE 449 VI . SHOWING PATH OF ICE ACROSS CAITHNESS 453 VII . MAP OF THE MIDLAND VALLEY ( SCOTLAND ) , SHOWING BURIED RIVER CHANNELS • 471 · CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . The Fundamental Problem of Geology .
... THE ICE IN NORTH- WESTERN EUROPE 449 VI . SHOWING PATH OF ICE ACROSS CAITHNESS 453 VII . MAP OF THE MIDLAND VALLEY ( SCOTLAND ) , SHOWING BURIED RIVER CHANNELS • 471 · CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . The Fundamental Problem of Geology .
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... Caithness and on the Orkney , Shet- land , and Faroe , islands , the boulder clay with broken shells in Caithness , Holderness , and other places , were inexplicable on the theory of land - ice . But it was so only in consequence of the ...
... Caithness and on the Orkney , Shet- land , and Faroe , islands , the boulder clay with broken shells in Caithness , Holderness , and other places , were inexplicable on the theory of land - ice . But it was so only in consequence of the ...
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... CAITHNESS . * Character of Caithness Boulder Clay . - Theories of the Origin of the Caithness Clay . Mr. Jamieson's Theory . — Mr . C. W. Peach's Theory . - The proposed Theory . Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated ...
... CAITHNESS . * Character of Caithness Boulder Clay . - Theories of the Origin of the Caithness Clay . Mr. Jamieson's Theory . — Mr . C. W. Peach's Theory . - The proposed Theory . Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated ...
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... Caithness . drift will stand the ordeal . ” So far , therefore , as the mere appearance of the drift is concerned ... Caithness in this invariable track , must either have come from the Atlantic to the N.W. , or from the Moray Firth to ...
... Caithness . drift will stand the ordeal . ” So far , therefore , as the mere appearance of the drift is concerned ... Caithness in this invariable track , must either have come from the Atlantic to the N.W. , or from the Moray Firth to ...
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