Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Force resulting from Difference of Specific Gravity . - Sir John Herschel's Estimate of the Force.- Maximum Density of Sea - Water . - Rate of Decrease of Temperature of Ocean at Equator . - The actual Amount of Force resulting from ...
... Force resulting from Difference of Specific Gravity . - Sir John Herschel's Estimate of the Force.- Maximum Density of Sea - Water . - Rate of Decrease of Temperature of Ocean at Equator . - The actual Amount of Force resulting from ...
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... Force . The Rationale of Revelation . - The Origin of " Cre- vasses . " - Effects of Tension . - Modification of Theory . - Fluid Mole- cules crystallize in Interstices . - Expansive Force of crystallizing Molecules a Cause of Motion ...
... Force . The Rationale of Revelation . - The Origin of " Cre- vasses . " - Effects of Tension . - Modification of Theory . - Fluid Mole- cules crystallize in Interstices . - Expansive Force of crystallizing Molecules a Cause of Motion ...
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... force in the form of heat passing through different parts of space ; but space itself is not a sub- * Athenæum , September 22 , 1860 . + Trans . Glasgow Geol . Soc . , vol . iv . , p . 313 . 1 . stance which can possibly be either cold ...
... force in the form of heat passing through different parts of space ; but space itself is not a sub- * Athenæum , September 22 , 1860 . + Trans . Glasgow Geol . Soc . , vol . iv . , p . 313 . 1 . stance which can possibly be either cold ...
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... force of gravity resulting from that difference is so infinitesimal that it is doubtful whether it is sufficient to produce sensible motion . I have also shown in Chapter VIII . that all the facts which this theory is designed to ...
... force of gravity resulting from that difference is so infinitesimal that it is doubtful whether it is sufficient to produce sensible motion . I have also shown in Chapter VIII . that all the facts which this theory is designed to ...
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... force of this objection . Why , the very efficiency of the stream as a heating agent necessarily depends upon the slowness of its motion . Did the Gulf - stream move as rapidly along its whole course as it does in the Straits of Florida ...
... force of this objection . Why , the very efficiency of the stream as a heating agent necessarily depends upon the slowness of its motion . Did the Gulf - stream move as rapidly along its whole course as it does in the Straits of Florida ...
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