Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... surfaces . - Where are all our ancient Land - surfaces ? -The stratified 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 ...
... surfaces . - Where are all our ancient Land - surfaces ? -The stratified 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 ...
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... surface . But it has been shown by Professor Airy , * Sir William Thomson , † and others , that the earth's equatorial protuberance is such that no geological change on its surface could ever possibly alter the position of the axis of ...
... surface . But it has been shown by Professor Airy , * Sir William Thomson , † and others , that the earth's equatorial protuberance is such that no geological change on its surface could ever possibly alter the position of the axis of ...
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... surface when the sun is in the zenith . And were the sun to remain stationary in the zenith for twelve hours , 2,796,768 foot - pounds would fall upon the surface . It can be shown that the total amount of heat received upon a unit surface ...
... surface when the sun is in the zenith . And were the sun to remain stationary in the zenith for twelve hours , 2,796,768 foot - pounds would fall upon the surface . It can be shown that the total amount of heat received upon a unit surface ...
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... surface ; and the greater the radiating surface , the greater is the quantity of heat thrown off . But this is not all ; the number of aërial particles heated by radiation increases in proportion to the area of the radiating surface ...
... surface ; and the greater the radiating surface , the greater is the quantity of heat thrown off . But this is not all ; the number of aërial particles heated by radiation increases in proportion to the area of the radiating surface ...
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... surface been entirely composed of land or of water . " The result at which he arrived is this : that , were the surface of the globe all water , 71 ° 7 would be the temperature of the equator , and 120 ° -5 the temperature of the poles ...
... surface been entirely composed of land or of water . " The result at which he arrived is this : that , were the surface of the globe all water , 71 ° 7 would be the temperature of the equator , and 120 ° -5 the temperature of the poles ...
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