Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Considerable portions of the volume have already appeared in substance as separate papers in the Philosophical Magazine and other journals during the past ten or twelve years . The theory , especially in as far as it relates to the ...
... Considerable portions of the volume have already appeared in substance as separate papers in the Philosophical Magazine and other journals during the past ten or twelve years . The theory , especially in as far as it relates to the ...
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... considerable diversity of climate , and may operate during great periods of time either to mitigate or to exaggerate the difference of winter and summer tempera- tures , so as to produce alternately in the same latitude of either ...
... considerable diversity of climate , and may operate during great periods of time either to mitigate or to exaggerate the difference of winter and summer tempera- tures , so as to produce alternately in the same latitude of either ...
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... considerable portion of it is devoted to the consideration of objections and difficulties bearing either directly or indirectly on the theory , it will be necessary to point out what those difficulties are , how they arose , and the ...
... considerable portion of it is devoted to the consideration of objections and difficulties bearing either directly or indirectly on the theory , it will be necessary to point out what those difficulties are , how they arose , and the ...
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... considerable length into the consideration of the effects of ocean currents on the distribution of heat over the globe . The only current of which anything like an accurate estimate of volume and temperature has been made is the Gulf ...
... considerable length into the consideration of the effects of ocean currents on the distribution of heat over the globe . The only current of which anything like an accurate estimate of volume and temperature has been made is the Gulf ...
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... considerable length , and in Chapter IX . I have entered somewhat minutely into an examination of the mechanics of the gravitation theory . A statement of the wind theory is given in Chapter XIII .; and in Chapter XIV . is shown the ...
... considerable length , and in Chapter IX . I have entered somewhat minutely into an examination of the mechanics of the gravitation theory . A statement of the wind theory is given in Chapter XIII .; and in Chapter XIV . is shown the ...
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