Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Ice - cap . - Simple Method of estimating Amount of Displacement . - Note by Sir W. Thomson on foregoing Method . - Difference between Continental Ice and a Glacier . - Probable Thickness of the Antarctic Ice - cap.— Probable Thickness ...
... Ice - cap . - Simple Method of estimating Amount of Displacement . - Note by Sir W. Thomson on foregoing Method . - Difference between Continental Ice and a Glacier . - Probable Thickness of the Antarctic Ice - cap.— Probable Thickness ...
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... ice - cold water extended to the surface , this could not explain how gravity should move it southward instead of ... Cap- tain Duperrey and others on the currents of the Southern Ocean , a very large portion of the area of that ocean is ...
... ice - cold water extended to the surface , this could not explain how gravity should move it southward instead of ... Cap- tain Duperrey and others on the currents of the Southern Ocean , a very large portion of the area of that ocean is ...
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... Ice - sheet . - The Icebergs of the Southern Ocean . - Inadequate Con- ceptions regarding the Magnitude of Continental Ice . Displacement of the Earth's Centre of Gravity by Polar Ice - cap . * -In order to represent the question in its ...
... Ice - sheet . - The Icebergs of the Southern Ocean . - Inadequate Con- ceptions regarding the Magnitude of Continental Ice . Displacement of the Earth's Centre of Gravity by Polar Ice - cap . * -In order to represent the question in its ...
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... ice - cap will also commence gradually to diminish in thickness , and another cap will begin to make its appearance on the northern hemisphere . As the northern cap may be supposed , for sim- plicity of calculation , to increase at the ...
... ice - cap will also commence gradually to diminish in thickness , and another cap will begin to make its appearance on the northern hemisphere . As the northern cap may be supposed , for sim- plicity of calculation , to increase at the ...
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... ice being 92 , the density of the cap to that of the earth will therefore be as 1 to 6 . S Fig . 6 . W N C. E Let Fig . 6 represent the earth with an ice - cap on the northern hemisphere , whose thickness is , say , 6,000 feet at the ...
... ice being 92 , the density of the cap to that of the earth will therefore be as 1 to 6 . S Fig . 6 . W N C. E Let Fig . 6 represent the earth with an ice - cap on the northern hemisphere , whose thickness is , say , 6,000 feet at the ...
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