Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Beds accounted for.-Mr. Boyd Dawkins's Objections .-- Oc- currence of Southern Shells in Glacial Deposits . - Evidence of Warm Inter - glacial Periods from Mineral Borings . - Striated Pavements.- Reason why Inter - glacial Land ...
... Beds accounted for.-Mr. Boyd Dawkins's Objections .-- Oc- currence of Southern Shells in Glacial Deposits . - Evidence of Warm Inter - glacial Periods from Mineral Borings . - Striated Pavements.- Reason why Inter - glacial Land ...
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... Bed of Coal . - Why Coal Strata contain so little evidence of Ice - action . - Land Flat during Coal Period . - Leading Idea of the Theory .-- Carboniferous Limestones 420 CHAPTER XXVII . PATH OF THE ICE - SHEET IN NORTH - WESTERN ...
... Bed of Coal . - Why Coal Strata contain so little evidence of Ice - action . - Land Flat during Coal Period . - Leading Idea of the Theory .-- Carboniferous Limestones 420 CHAPTER XXVII . PATH OF THE ICE - SHEET IN NORTH - WESTERN ...
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... beds . - That the glaciation of north - western Europe resulted to a great extent from the stoppage of the Gulf - stream may , I think , be inferred from a circumstance pointed out by the Rev. Mr. Crosskey , several years ago , in a ...
... beds . - That the glaciation of north - western Europe resulted to a great extent from the stoppage of the Gulf - stream may , I think , be inferred from a circumstance pointed out by the Rev. Mr. Crosskey , several years ago , in a ...
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... beds about Montreal , for example , with those found in the Clyde beds , for Montreal lies much further to the south than the Clyde . The Clyde beds must be compared with those of Labrador , while the beds of Montreal must be compared ...
... beds about Montreal , for example , with those found in the Clyde beds , for Montreal lies much further to the south than the Clyde . The Clyde beds must be compared with those of Labrador , while the beds of Montreal must be compared ...
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... beds and remains of the mammoth , the reindeer , and musk - ox , tell of cold as truly as the markings on the rocks do of ice . Objection from the Present Condition of the Planet Mars . - It has been urged as an objection by Professor ...
... beds and remains of the mammoth , the reindeer , and musk - ox , tell of cold as truly as the markings on the rocks do of ice . Objection from the Present Condition of the Planet Mars . - It has been urged as an objection by Professor ...
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