Climate and Time in their Geological Relations

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Author

Croll, James, 1821-1890

Title

Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

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Produced by WebRover, MWS, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Ocean currents

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62693

Release Date

July 18, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CLIMATE AND TIME IN THEIR GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF PLATES.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. OCEAN-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.—( Continued. )
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. OUTLINE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENCIES WHICH LEAD TO SECULAR CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. REASON WHY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS COLDER THAN THE NORTHERN.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY ( continued ).
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—THE MECHANICS OF DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE INADEQUACY OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY PROVED BY ANOTHER METHOD.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. MR. A. G. FINDLAY’S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN RELATION TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS IN ARCTIC REGIONS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS.—REASON OF THE IMPERFECTION OF GEOLOGICAL RECORDS IN REFERENCE TO THEM.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS; GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF. — CAMBRIAN PERIOD. — SILURIAN PERIOD. — OLD RED SANDSTONE. — CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD. — PERMIAN PERIOD. — OOLITIC PERIOD. — CRETACEOUS PERIOD. — EOCENE PERIOD. — MIOCENE PERIOD.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. GEOLOGICAL TIME.—PROBABLE DATE OF THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. GEOLOGICAL TIME.—METHOD OF MEASURING THE RATE OF SUBAËRIAL DENUDATION.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. THE PROBABLE AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE SUN.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH.— Continued.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. THE INFLUENCE OF THE OBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC ON CLIMATE AND ON THE LEVEL OF THE SEA.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. COAL AN INTER-GLACIAL FORMATION.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII. PATH OF THE ICE-SHEET IN NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE BOULDER CLAY OF CAITHNESS. [250]
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. NORTH OF ENGLAND ICE-SHEET, AND TRANSPORT OF WASTDALE CRAG BLOCKS. [266]
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX. EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER CHANNELS OF A CONTINENTAL PERIOD IN BRITAIN. [279]
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS.—THEORIES OF GLACIER-MOTION.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS.—THE MOLECULAR THEORY.
36. 36.APPENDIX. — I. — M. DE MAIRAN. — MR. RICHARD KIRWAN. — SIR CHARLES LYELL. — SIR JOHN F. HERSCHEL, Bart. — SIR CHARLES LYELL, Bart. — M. ARAGO. — BARON HUMBOLDT. — SIR HENRY T. DE LA BECHE. — PROFESSOR PHILLIPS. — MR. ROBERT BAKEWELL. — MRS. SOMERVILLE. — MR. L. W. MEECH, A.M. — M. JEAN REYNAUD. — M. ADHÉMAR. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII.
37. 37.INDEX.

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