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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CLIMATE. Conflict between Geology and Astronomy?Geology assorts Uniformity of Climate until Keeent Times?Astronomy assorts Inclination of Earth's Axis to be iuvariable, and therefore Climates necessary? Evidence for Warm and Uniform Climates?Greenland?Spitz- bergen?Impossible under Existing Conditions?Heat, Light and Actinism?Invariability of Earth's Axis?Causes of Higher and more Uniform Temperature?Cooling of the Earth?More Heat from the Sun?Warmer Regions of Space?More Carbonic-dioxide?Would not explain Uniformity of Temperature?Excess of Oxygen?Modification of Species?Configuration of Sea and Land?CrolPs Theory?Displacement of Earth's Axis?Inclination of Axis of Planets and Moon?Unsolved Problems of the Future. Geology and astronomy are in conflict on other questions as well as that of the time during which a sufficient supply of solar heat has rendered the earth habitable. The conditions of that supply are as important as the total quantity, and these conditions depend mainly on climate. Geology seems to show that during the vast lapse of time embraced by fossil records from the Cambrian to the close of the Tertiary period, there were no well-marked zones of climate, and the conditions of life were uniform, or nearly so, throughout the whole earth. Astronomy, on the other hand, asserts that the vicissitudes of the seasons, with their corresponding zones of climate, must have existed from the beginning as they now are. Geology relies on undoubted facts. Coral formations, which require both a warm and an equable climate, and cannot live in a temperature below 66 Fahrenheit, were found by Captain Nares in Greenland, in latitude 81 40'. Ammonites of the same genera and even of the same species are found alike in Melville's Island and in India; and Ichthyosaur..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217035590 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217035590 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 264 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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