Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... Sea - margin . - Mistaken In- ference regarding the Absence of a Formation . - Immense Antiquity of existing Oceans ... Sea - Level in Relation to Dis- tribution . - Extent of Submergence on the Hypothesis that the Earth is fluid in the ...
... Sea - margin . - Mistaken In- ference regarding the Absence of a Formation . - Immense Antiquity of existing Oceans ... Sea - Level in Relation to Dis- tribution . - Extent of Submergence on the Hypothesis that the Earth is fluid in the ...
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... Level of the Sea . - When the Obliquity was last at its superior Limit . - Probable Date of the 25 - foot raised Beach . - Probable Extent of Rise of Sea - level resulting from Increase of Obliquity . - Lieutenant - Colonel Drayson's ...
... Level of the Sea . - When the Obliquity was last at its superior Limit . - Probable Date of the 25 - foot raised Beach . - Probable Extent of Rise of Sea - level resulting from Increase of Obliquity . - Lieutenant - Colonel Drayson's ...
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... Sea - Level . - Other buried River Chanuels 466 CHAPTER XXX . THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS . - THEORIES OF GLACIER - MOTION . Why the Question of Glacier - motion has been found to be so difficult.— The Regelation Theory ...
... Sea - Level . - Other buried River Chanuels 466 CHAPTER XXX . THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS . - THEORIES OF GLACIER - MOTION . Why the Question of Glacier - motion has been found to be so difficult.— The Regelation Theory ...
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... sea - level by means of those apparently trifling agents , not only once or twice , but many times , during past ages , it was not surprising that the views entertained by geologists regarding the immense antiquity 20 CLIMATE AND TIME ..
... sea - level by means of those apparently trifling agents , not only once or twice , but many times , during past ages , it was not surprising that the views entertained by geologists regarding the immense antiquity 20 CLIMATE AND TIME ..
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... sea- level at Admiralty Inlet , South Shetland , in lat . 64 ° ; and while near this place the thermometer in the very middle of summer fell at night to 23 ° F .; and so rapidly was the young ice forming around the ship that he began ...
... sea- level at Admiralty Inlet , South Shetland , in lat . 64 ° ; and while near this place the thermometer in the very middle of summer fell at night to 23 ° F .; and so rapidly was the young ice forming around the ship that he began ...
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