Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Eocene Age in the Alps.-M. Gastaldi on the Ice- transported Limestone Blocks of the Superga .-- Professor Heer on the Climate of North Greenland during Miocene Period . CHAPTER XIX . FOOR · 292 GEOLOGICAL TIME . - PROBABLE DATE OF THE ...
... Eocene Age in the Alps.-M. Gastaldi on the Ice- transported Limestone Blocks of the Superga .-- Professor Heer on the Climate of North Greenland during Miocene Period . CHAPTER XIX . FOOR · 292 GEOLOGICAL TIME . - PROBABLE DATE OF THE ...
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... Eocene and Miocene Periods • PAGE 346 CHAPTER XXII . A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question ...
... Eocene and Miocene Periods • PAGE 346 CHAPTER XXII . A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question ...
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... Eocene and Miocene periods . Ten years ago , when the theory was first advanced , it was beset by a very formidable difficulty , arising from the opinions which then prevailed in reference to geological time . One or two glacial epochs ...
... Eocene and Miocene periods . Ten years ago , when the theory was first advanced , it was beset by a very formidable difficulty , arising from the opinions which then prevailed in reference to geological time . One or two glacial epochs ...
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... Eocene and the Upper Miocene periods our country passed through a condition of glaciation as severe as it has done during the Post - pliocene period ; yet when we examine the subject carefully , we find that there is actually no just ...
... Eocene and the Upper Miocene periods our country passed through a condition of glaciation as severe as it has done during the Post - pliocene period ; yet when we examine the subject carefully , we find that there is actually no just ...
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... Eocene or Miocene strata . If the stratified rocks forming the earth's crust consisted of a series of old land ... Eocene , or the Permian period ? Unless this can be proved to be the case , we have no ground whatever to conclude that ...
... Eocene or Miocene strata . If the stratified rocks forming the earth's crust consisted of a series of old land ... Eocene , or the Permian period ? Unless this can be proved to be the case , we have no ground whatever to conclude that ...
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