Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Motion in Space . --Conclusion as to Date of Glacial Epoch . - False Analogy . - Probable Date of Eocene and Miocene Periods • PAGE 346 CHAPTER XXII . A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE ...
... Motion in Space . --Conclusion as to Date of Glacial Epoch . - False Analogy . - Probable Date of Eocene and Miocene Periods • PAGE 346 CHAPTER XXII . A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE ...
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... MOTION . Why the Question of Glacier - motion has been found to be so difficult.— The Regelation Theory . - It accounts for the Continuity of a Glacier , but not for its Motion . - Gravitation proved by Canon Moseley insuf- ficient to ...
... MOTION . Why the Question of Glacier - motion has been found to be so difficult.— The Regelation Theory . - It accounts for the Continuity of a Glacier , but not for its Motion . - Gravitation proved by Canon Moseley insuf- ficient to ...
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... MOTION OF GLACIERS . THE MOLECULAR THEORY . Present State of the Question . - Heat necessary to the Motion of a Glacier . -Ice does not shear in the Solid State . - Motion of a Glacier molecular . -How Heat is transmitted through Ice ...
... MOTION OF GLACIERS . THE MOLECULAR THEORY . Present State of the Question . - Heat necessary to the Motion of a Glacier . -Ice does not shear in the Solid State . - Motion of a Glacier molecular . -How Heat is transmitted through Ice ...
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... motion -- a theory which I have been led to modify considerably on one particular point . There is one point to which I wish particularly to direct attention — viz . , that I have studiously avoided introducing into the theories ...
... motion -- a theory which I have been led to modify considerably on one particular point . There is one point to which I wish particularly to direct attention — viz . , that I have studiously avoided introducing into the theories ...
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... of the moisture of the torrid regions falls in those regions as rain . It will hardly do to object that the above may " Heat as a Mode of Motion , " art . 240 . probably be an over - estimate of the amount of DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT . 29.
... of the moisture of the torrid regions falls in those regions as rain . It will hardly do to object that the above may " Heat as a Mode of Motion , " art . 240 . probably be an over - estimate of the amount of DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT . 29.
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