Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations / A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate
by James Croll
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Chapters (646)
- CLIMATE AND TIME IN THEIR GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER II. OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
- CHAPTER III. OCEAN-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.—(Continued.)
- CHAPTER IV. OUTLINE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENCIES WHICH LEAD TO SECULAR CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
- CHAPTER V. REASON WHY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS COLDER THAN THE NORTHERN.
- CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY.
- CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY (continued).
- CHAPTER VIII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
- CHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—THE MECHANICS OF DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
- CHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
- CHAPTER XI. THE INADEQUACY OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY PROVED BY ANOTHER METHOD.
- CHAPTER XII. MR. A. G. FINDLAY’S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN RELATION TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
- CHAPTER XV. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS.
- CHAPTER XVI. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS IN ARCTIC REGIONS.
- CHAPTER XVII. FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS.—REASON OF THE IMPERFECTION OF GEOLOGICAL RECORDS IN REFERENCE TO THEM.
- 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.
- CHAPTER XIX. GEOLOGICAL TIME.—PROBABLE DATE OF THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
- CHAPTER XX. GEOLOGICAL TIME.—METHOD OF MEASURING THE RATE OF SUBAËRIAL DENUDATION.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE PROBABLE AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE SUN.
- CHAPTER XXII. A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH.—Continued.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE INFLUENCE OF THE OBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC ON CLIMATE AND ON THE LEVEL OF THE SEA.
- CHAPTER XXVI. COAL AN INTER-GLACIAL FORMATION.
- CHAPTER XXVII. PATH OF THE ICE-SHEET IN NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE BOULDER CLAY OF CAITHNESS.[250]
- CHAPTER XXVIII. NORTH OF ENGLAND ICE-SHEET, AND TRANSPORT OF WASTDALE CRAG BLOCKS.[266]
- CHAPTER XXIX. EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER CHANNELS OF A CONTINENTAL PERIOD IN BRITAIN.[279]
- CHAPTER XXX. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS.—THEORIES OF GLACIER-MOTION.
- CHAPTER XXXI. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS.—THE MOLECULAR THEORY.
- 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.
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