Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... globe is con cerned , fully meet the demand of the geologist . The volume , though not intended as a popular treatise , will be found , I trust , to be perfectly plain and intelligible even to readers not familiar with physical science ...
... globe is con cerned , fully meet the demand of the geologist . The volume , though not intended as a popular treatise , will be found , I trust , to be perfectly plain and intelligible even to readers not familiar with physical science ...
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... GLOBE . The absolute Heating - power of Ocean - currents . - Volume of the Gulf- stream . - Absolute Amount of Heat conveyed by it . - Greater Portion of Moisture in Inter - tropical Regions falls as Rain in those Regions.- Land along ...
... GLOBE . The absolute Heating - power of Ocean - currents . - Volume of the Gulf- stream . - Absolute Amount of Heat conveyed by it . - Greater Portion of Moisture in Inter - tropical Regions falls as Rain in those Regions.- Land along ...
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... Globe is being denuded . Alfred Tylor on the Sediment of the Mississippi . - The Law which determines the Rate of Denudation . - The Globe becoming less oblate . - Carrying Power of our River Systems the true Measure of Denudation ...
... Globe is being denuded . Alfred Tylor on the Sediment of the Mississippi . - The Law which determines the Rate of Denudation . - The Globe becoming less oblate . - Carrying Power of our River Systems the true Measure of Denudation ...
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... GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question . - Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition.Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated . - Observed Thickness ...
... GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question . - Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition.Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated . - Observed Thickness ...
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... Globe . - Increase of Obliquity diminishes the Heat at the Equator and increases that at the Poles . - Influence of Change of Obliquity on the Level of the Sea . - When the Obliquity was last at its superior Limit . - Probable Date of ...
... Globe . - Increase of Obliquity diminishes the Heat at the Equator and increases that at the Poles . - Influence of Change of Obliquity on the Level of the Sea . - When the Obliquity was last at its superior Limit . - Probable Date of ...
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