Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Boulder Clays of former Glacial Epochs . - Records of the Glacial Epoch are fust disappearing . - Icebergs do not ... Clay the Product of Land - ice .-- Paleontological Evidence . - Paucity of Life characteristic of a Glacial Period ...
... Boulder Clays of former Glacial Epochs . - Records of the Glacial Epoch are fust disappearing . - Icebergs do not ... Clay the Product of Land - ice .-- Paleontological Evidence . - Paucity of Life characteristic of a Glacial Period ...
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... Boulder Clay of Perinian Age . - Permian Boulder Clay of Natal . - Oolitic Boulder Conglomerate in Sutherland- shire . - Warm Climate in North Greenland during Oolitic Period.— Mr. Godwin - Austen on Ice - action during Cretaceous ...
... Boulder Clay of Perinian Age . - Permian Boulder Clay of Natal . - Oolitic Boulder Conglomerate in Sutherland- shire . - Warm Climate in North Greenland during Oolitic Period.— Mr. Godwin - Austen on Ice - action during Cretaceous ...
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... 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 Theory . - Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet ...
... 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 Theory . - Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet ...
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... boulder clay , no physical importance was attached to them , and consequently no description or record of them ever kept . In fact , all such examples were regarded as purely accidental and exceptional , and were considered not worthy ...
... boulder clay , no physical importance was attached to them , and consequently no description or record of them ever kept . In fact , all such examples were regarded as purely accidental and exceptional , and were considered not worthy ...
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... boulder See a paper by M. Morlot , on " The Post - Tertiary and Quaternary Forma . tions of Switzerland . " Edin . New Phil . Journal , New Series , vol . ii . , 1855 . clay or till . M. Moriot observed in the neighbourhood INTER ...
... boulder See a paper by M. Morlot , on " The Post - Tertiary and Quaternary Forma . tions of Switzerland . " Edin . New Phil . Journal , New Series , vol . ii . , 1855 . clay or till . M. Moriot observed in the neighbourhood INTER ...
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