Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 13Victoria Institute., 1880 |
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... produced in half the time previously calculated . " Thus 50,000 years were struck off by the first correction . But now let us assume , instead of a fixed annual amount of detritus , that there has been a steady decrease of only one ...
... produced in half the time previously calculated . " Thus 50,000 years were struck off by the first correction . But now let us assume , instead of a fixed annual amount of detritus , that there has been a steady decrease of only one ...
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... produced not by convulsions of nature , but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological periods . When it was ...
... produced not by convulsions of nature , but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological periods . When it was ...
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... produce an increased nutation and a kind of waddling motion around the true axis , but it could not alter the place of that axis , or produce any sensible effect . on the climate of any main parts of the surface . 21. Another theory of ...
... produce an increased nutation and a kind of waddling motion around the true axis , but it could not alter the place of that axis , or produce any sensible effect . on the climate of any main parts of the surface . 21. Another theory of ...
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... produce inequality of heat at midwinter and midsummer , the same as with the present obliquity and an excentricity of 1095 , or half as great again as the maximum in Mr. Croll's table . 25. But the mistake is here . The precession or ...
... produce inequality of heat at midwinter and midsummer , the same as with the present obliquity and an excentricity of 1095 , or half as great again as the maximum in Mr. Croll's table . 25. But the mistake is here . The precession or ...
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... produce the glaciation of more than half the hemisphere , when one of 26 millions has no such effect in a planet half as far again from the sun Mr. Croll observes that little is known of the climatic con- dition of Mars , and that its ...
... produce the glaciation of more than half the hemisphere , when one of 26 millions has no such effect in a planet half as far again from the sun Mr. Croll observes that little is known of the climatic con- dition of Mars , and that its ...
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