Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 13Victoria Institute., 1880 |
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... period . This period , again , has three different estimates of its remoteness by different geological speculators . One of them assigns two glacial periods to the dates 13,000 and 44,000 years before Christ . Another offers the dates ...
... period . This period , again , has three different estimates of its remoteness by different geological speculators . One of them assigns two glacial periods to the dates 13,000 and 44,000 years before Christ . Another offers the dates ...
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... periods have been due to successive maxima of excentricity of the earth's orbit during a space of three millions of past ... period seems " quite insignificant in duration , when compared with the antiquity of the human race " ( p . 289 ) ...
... periods have been due to successive maxima of excentricity of the earth's orbit during a space of three millions of past ... period seems " quite insignificant in duration , when compared with the antiquity of the human race " ( p . 289 ) ...
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... period of 10 millions only . In the statement quoted it is owned that three further data must be supplied , before ... periods , must be wholly altered . There is no longer a fixed amount of heat , of which a small part is transferred by ...
... period of 10 millions only . In the statement quoted it is owned that three further data must be supplied , before ... periods , must be wholly altered . There is no longer a fixed amount of heat , of which a small part is transferred by ...
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... period of something like a hundred millions of years . But these speculations had little weight when pitted against the stern and undeniable fact of subaerial denudation . How were the two to be reconciled ? Was it the physicist who had ...
... period of something like a hundred millions of years . But these speculations had little weight when pitted against the stern and undeniable fact of subaerial denudation . How were the two to be reconciled ? Was it the physicist who had ...
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... periods , —the earth's translation through hotter and colder regions of space . This does not need to detain us long ... period , like the glacial epochs , we must assume the earth to have come near a cold body . And recent discoveries ...
... periods , —the earth's translation through hotter and colder regions of space . This does not need to detain us long ... period , like the glacial epochs , we must assume the earth to have come near a cold body . And recent discoveries ...
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