Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Icebergs do not striate the Sea - bottom . - Mr . Camp- bell's Observations on the Coast of Labrador . - Amount of Material trans- ported by Icebergs much exaggerated . - Mr . Packard on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador . - Boulder ...
... Icebergs do not striate the Sea - bottom . - Mr . Camp- bell's Observations on the Coast of Labrador . - Amount of Material trans- ported by Icebergs much exaggerated . - Mr . Packard on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador . - Boulder ...
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... Icebergs of the Southern Ocean . - Inadequate Conceptions regarding the Magnitude of Continental Ice 368 CHAPTER XXIV . THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH .- ( Continued . ) Extent ...
... Icebergs of the Southern Ocean . - Inadequate Conceptions regarding the Magnitude of Continental Ice 368 CHAPTER XXIV . THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH .- ( Continued . ) Extent ...
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... , rivers , glaciers , icebergs , and the sea . These tools have been at work from the earliest times of which any geological record has been preserved . Indeed , it is out of the accumulated chips and dust which they have made ,
... , rivers , glaciers , icebergs , and the sea . These tools have been at work from the earliest times of which any geological record has been preserved . Indeed , it is out of the accumulated chips and dust which they have made ,
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... icebergs deeply immersed in it are often carried southward with considerable velocity against the united force of the wind and the Gulf - stream . Dr. Carpenter refers at considerable length ( § 134 ) to Mr. Mitchell's opinion as to the ...
... icebergs deeply immersed in it are often carried southward with considerable velocity against the united force of the wind and the Gulf - stream . Dr. Carpenter refers at considerable length ( § 134 ) to Mr. Mitchell's opinion as to the ...
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... icebergs have been seen to be carried northwards by this under current at the rate of four knots an hour against both the wind and the surface current , ripping and tearing their way with terrific force through surface ice of great ...
... icebergs have been seen to be carried northwards by this under current at the rate of four knots an hour against both the wind and the surface current , ripping and tearing their way with terrific force through surface ice of great ...
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