Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Quantity of Heat which can be conveyed by the General Oceanic Circula- tion trifling . - Tendency in the Advocates ... Thermal Work of the Gulf - stream CHAPTER XII . MR . A. G. FINDLAY'S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED . PAGR 191 · Mr. Findlay's ...
... Quantity of Heat which can be conveyed by the General Oceanic Circula- tion trifling . - Tendency in the Advocates ... Thermal Work of the Gulf - stream CHAPTER XII . MR . A. G. FINDLAY'S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED . PAGR 191 · Mr. Findlay's ...
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... quantity of force in the form of heat passing through different parts of space ; but space itself is not a sub- * Athenæum , September 22 , 1860 . + Trans . Glasgow Geol . Soc . , vol . iv . , p . 313 . 1 . stance which can possibly be ...
... quantity of force in the form of heat passing through different parts of space ; but space itself is not a sub- * Athenæum , September 22 , 1860 . + Trans . Glasgow Geol . Soc . , vol . iv . , p . 313 . 1 . stance which can possibly be ...
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... amount of heat reaching both hemispheres is the same . And he considered that this beautiful compensating principle would protect the climate of our globe from being seriously affected by an increase in the eccentricity of its orbit ...
... amount of heat reaching both hemispheres is the same . And he considered that this beautiful compensating principle would protect the climate of our globe from being seriously affected by an increase in the eccentricity of its orbit ...
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... quantity of heat received from the sun should 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 ...
... quantity of heat received from the sun should 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 ...
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... heat transferred from equatorial to temperate and polar regions by means of ocean currents and the influence which ... quantity of heat conveyed by it . On the necessary computation being made , it is found that the amount transferred by ...
... heat transferred from equatorial to temperate and polar regions by means of ocean currents and the influence which ... quantity of heat conveyed by it . On the necessary computation being made , it is found that the amount transferred by ...
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