Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... lower the Temperature of the Globe . -Influence of Gulf - stream on Climate of Europe . - Temperature of Space . - Radiation of a Particle . - Professor Dove on Normal Tem- perature . - Temperature of Equator and Poles in the Absence of ...
... lower the Temperature of the Globe . -Influence of Gulf - stream on Climate of Europe . - Temperature of Space . - Radiation of a Particle . - Professor Dove on Normal Tem- perature . - Temperature of Equator and Poles in the Absence of ...
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... Lower Carboniferous Age . - Professor Haughton and Professor Dawson on Evidence of Ice - action during Coal Period . - Mr . W. T. Blanford on Glaciation in India during Carboniferous Period . - Carboniferous Formations of Arctic Regions ...
... Lower Carboniferous Age . - Professor Haughton and Professor Dawson on Evidence of Ice - action during Coal Period . - Mr . W. T. Blanford on Glaciation in India during Carboniferous Period . - Carboniferous Formations of Arctic Regions ...
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... lower to a higher Level • PAGE · 514 APPENDIX . I. Opinions expressed previous to 1864 regarding the Influence of the Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit on Climate II . On the Nature of Heat - Vibrations 528 · 545 III . On the Reason why ...
... lower to a higher Level • PAGE · 514 APPENDIX . I. Opinions expressed previous to 1864 regarding the Influence of the Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit on Climate II . On the Nature of Heat - Vibrations 528 · 545 III . On the Reason why ...
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... lower temperature of the southern hemisphere to the fact that the sun remains about seven days less on that hemisphere than on the northern ; their view being that the southern hemi- sphere on this account receives seven days less heat ...
... lower temperature of the southern hemisphere to the fact that the sun remains about seven days less on that hemisphere than on the northern ; their view being that the southern hemi- sphere on this account receives seven days less heat ...
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... lower the temperature , and cover the country with snow and ice ! Neither would excessively cold winters , followed by excessively hot summers , produce a glacial epoch . To assert , therefore , that the purely astronomical causes could ...
... lower the temperature , and cover the country with snow and ice ! Neither would excessively cold winters , followed by excessively hot summers , produce a glacial epoch . To assert , therefore , that the purely astronomical causes could ...
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