Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Rocks consist of a Series of old Sea- bottoms . - Transformation of a Land - surface into a Sea - bottom oblite- rates all Traces of Glaciation . - Why so little remains of the Boulder Clays of former Glacial Epochs . - Records of the ...
... Rocks consist of a Series of old Sea- bottoms . - Transformation of a Land - surface into a Sea - bottom oblite- rates all Traces of Glaciation . - Why so little remains of the Boulder Clays of former Glacial Epochs . - Records of the ...
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... ROCKS OF THE GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question . - Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition.Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated ...
... ROCKS OF THE GLOBE . Prevailing Methods defective . - Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.- Three Elements in the Question . - Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition.Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over- estimated ...
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... Rock Basin . - How Ice can ascend a Slope . - How deep River Valleys are striated across . - A remarkable Example in the Valley of the Tay . - How Boulders can be carried from a lower to a higher Level • PAGE · 514 APPENDIX . I ...
... Rock Basin . - How Ice can ascend a Slope . - How deep River Valleys are striated across . - A remarkable Example in the Valley of the Tay . - How Boulders can be carried from a lower to a higher Level • PAGE · 514 APPENDIX . I ...
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... rocks of the globe contain all the records which now remain of their action , and it is the special duty of the geologist to investigate and read those records . It will be at once admitted that in order to a proper understanding of the ...
... rocks of the globe contain all the records which now remain of their action , and it is the special duty of the geologist to investigate and read those records . It will be at once admitted that in order to a proper understanding of the ...
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... rocks of the globe . It will be seen from Chapter XXII . that the mean thickness is far less than is generally supposed . The physical cause of the submergence of the land during the glacial epoch , and the influence of change in the ...
... rocks of the globe . It will be seen from Chapter XXII . that the mean thickness is far less than is generally supposed . The physical cause of the submergence of the land during the glacial epoch , and the influence of change in the ...
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