Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 85
Página viii
... Result of an Increase of Eccentricity . - An important Consideration overlooked . - Change of Eccentricity affects ... resulting from Dif- ference of Temperature . - Difference of Specific Gravity resulting from Difference of Saltness ...
... Result of an Increase of Eccentricity . - An important Consideration overlooked . - Change of Eccentricity affects ... resulting from Dif- ference of Temperature . - Difference of Specific Gravity resulting from Difference of Saltness ...
Página 2
... result from a preponderance of one or more of these agencies over the rest . When heat , for example , predominates , we have a hot or tropical climate . When cold and frost pre- dominate , we have a rigorous or arctic climate . With ...
... result from a preponderance of one or more of these agencies over the rest . When heat , for example , predominates , we have a hot or tropical climate . When cold and frost pre- dominate , we have a rigorous or arctic climate . With ...
Página 10
... result . It was shown , however , by Laplace that the change of obliquity was confined within so narrow limits that it has scarcely ever been appealed to as a cause seriously affecting climate . The only remaining cause to which appeal ...
... result . It was shown , however , by Laplace that the change of obliquity was confined within so narrow limits that it has scarcely ever been appealed to as a cause seriously affecting climate . The only remaining cause to which appeal ...
Página 13
... result directly from an increase of eccentricity , it might never- theless do so indirectly . Although an increase of eccentricity could have no direct tendency to lower the temperature and cover our country with ice , yet it might ...
... result directly from an increase of eccentricity , it might never- theless do so indirectly . Although an increase of eccentricity could have no direct tendency to lower the temperature and cover our country with ice , yet it might ...
Página 14
... result from an increase of eccen- tricity , we shall find that a host of physical agencies are brought into ... results from this deflec- tion constitute not only the most important part of the subject , but the one beset with the ...
... result from an increase of eccen- tricity , we shall find that a host of physical agencies are brought into ... results from this deflec- tion constitute not only the most important part of the subject , but the one beset with the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
amount of heat antarctic aphelion arctic regions Atlantic beds bottom boulder clay Caithness Carboniferous cause consequently considerable density denudation deposits depth descend difference of specific difference of temperature earth's orbit eccentricity ecliptic effect Eocene equal equator equatorial column equatorial regions evidence extent fact feet flow foot-pounds force Geol geological geologists glacial epoch glacier globe Grangemouth greater Greenland Gulf-stream heat received ice-cap icebergs inter-tropical John Herschel land land-ice latitude lower mass mean temperature melting miles Miocene molecules motion North North Sea northern obliquity ocean-currents oceanic circulation perihelion polar column polar regions poles present probably produce Professor quantity of heat radiation regard result river rocks sand Scotland sea-bottom sea-level shear slope snow and ice southern hemisphere specific gravity Straits of Florida stratified stream striated submergence summer sun's supposed surface theory thickness tion tropical warm periods warm water winds winter