Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Mean Temperature of whole Earth should be greater in Aphelion than in Perihelion . - Pro- fessor Tyndall on the Glacial Epoch . - A general Reduction of Tem- perature will not produce a Glacial Epoch . - Objection from the present ...
... Mean Temperature of whole Earth should be greater in Aphelion than in Perihelion . - Pro- fessor Tyndall on the Glacial Epoch . - A general Reduction of Tem- perature will not produce a Glacial Epoch . - Objection from the present ...
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... Mean Tem- perature of a Cross Section less than Mean Temperature of Stream.- Reason of such Diversity of Opinion regarding Ocean - currents . - More rigid Method of Investigation necessary CHAPTER XIII . • 203 THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC ...
... Mean Tem- perature of a Cross Section less than Mean Temperature of Stream.- Reason of such Diversity of Opinion regarding Ocean - currents . - More rigid Method of Investigation necessary CHAPTER XIII . • 203 THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC ...
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... mean thermometrical state of the globe . " This idea , supported by these ... temperature , and cover the country with snow and ice ! Neither would ... temperature and cover our country with ice , yet it might bring into operation ...
... mean thermometrical state of the globe . " This idea , supported by these ... temperature , and cover the country with snow and ice ! Neither would ... temperature and cover our country with ice , yet it might bring into operation ...
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... mean temperature . But although we know something of the temperature of most of the great ocean- currents , yet , with the exception of the Gulf - stream , little has been ascertained regarding their volume . The breadth , depth , and ...
... mean temperature . But although we know something of the temperature of most of the great ocean- currents , yet , with the exception of the Gulf - stream , little has been ascertained regarding their volume . The breadth , depth , and ...
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... mean temperature of the entire mass of moving water is not under 65 ° at the moment of leaving the Gulf . But to prevent the possibility of any objec- tions being raised on the grounds that I may have over - esti- mated the volume of ...
... mean temperature of the entire mass of moving water is not under 65 ° at the moment of leaving the Gulf . But to prevent the possibility of any objec- tions being raised on the grounds that I may have over - esti- mated the volume of ...
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