Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Extent of Submergence from Displacement of Earth's Centre of Gravity.- Circumstances which show that the Glacial Submergence resulted from Displacement of the Earth's Centre of Gravity . - Agreement between Theory and Observed Facts ...
... Extent of Submergence from Displacement of Earth's Centre of Gravity.- Circumstances which show that the Glacial Submergence resulted from Displacement of the Earth's Centre of Gravity . - Agreement between Theory and Observed Facts ...
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... Extent of Rise of Sea - level resulting from Increase of Obliquity . - Lieutenant - Colonel Drayson's and Mr. Belt's Theories . -Sir Charles Lyell on Influence of Obliquity • PAGE 398 CHAPTER XXVI . COAL AN INTER - GLACIAL FORMATION ...
... Extent of Rise of Sea - level resulting from Increase of Obliquity . - Lieutenant - Colonel Drayson's and Mr. Belt's Theories . -Sir Charles Lyell on Influence of Obliquity • PAGE 398 CHAPTER XXVI . COAL AN INTER - GLACIAL FORMATION ...
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... extent which could at all sensibly affect climate . Others , again , have tried to explain the change of climate by supposing , with Poisson , that the earth during its past geological history may have passed through hotter and colder ...
... extent which could at all sensibly affect climate . Others , again , have tried to explain the change of climate by supposing , with Poisson , that the earth during its past geological history may have passed through hotter and colder ...
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... extent the earth's climate would , by its gravity , seriously disarrange the mechanism of our solar system . Consequently , if our solar system had ever , during any former period of its history , really come into the vicinity of such a ...
... extent the earth's climate would , by its gravity , seriously disarrange the mechanism of our solar system . Consequently , if our solar system had ever , during any former period of its history , really come into the vicinity of such a ...
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... extent that would account for the glacial epoch . And , on the other hand , were the land all collected along the equator , while the polar regions were covered with sea , this would raise the temperature of the globe to an enor- mous ...
... extent that would account for the glacial epoch . And , on the other hand , were the land all collected along the equator , while the polar regions were covered with sea , this would raise the temperature of the globe to an enor- mous ...
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