Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's ClimateAppleton, 1890 - 577 páginas |
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... THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY 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 ...
... THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY 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 ...
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... Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated on their Summits . - Scandinavian Ice - sheet .-- North Sea filled with Land - ice . - Great Baltic Glacier . - Jutland and Denmark crossed by Ice . - Sir R. Murchison's ...
... Thickness of Scottish Ice - sheet . - Pentlands striated on their Summits . - Scandinavian Ice - sheet .-- North Sea filled with Land - ice . - Great Baltic Glacier . - Jutland and Denmark crossed by Ice . - Sir R. Murchison's ...
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... thickness of the stratified 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 ...
... thickness of the stratified 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 ...
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... thickness of the plate whose radiation at different tem- peratures we are ascertaining , we find that as it grows thinner and thinner the rate at which it radiates off its heat as its temperature rises becomes less and less . In other ...
... thickness of the plate whose radiation at different tem- peratures we are ascertaining , we find that as it grows thinner and thinner the rate at which it radiates off its heat as its temperature rises becomes less and less . In other ...
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... thickness of the plate till we reached a film so thin as to embrace but only one particle in its thickness , its rate of radiation would be proportionate to its temperature . Dr. Balfour Stewart has very ingeniously suggested the ...
... thickness of the plate till we reached a film so thin as to embrace but only one particle in its thickness , its rate of radiation would be proportionate to its temperature . Dr. Balfour Stewart has very ingeniously suggested the ...
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