The Coming Ice Age
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About This Book
The explanations given in the following pages, in which I have sought to show the manner in which an ice age is being brought about, is an extension of a treatise on “The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods,” which I published in a small edition in 1894. And, from the small number of copies circulated, only a few came to the hands of persons particularly interested in such matter. Yet there were instances of its having proved of special interest to persons celebrated for their geological attainments, and also to instructors in physical geography. Besides, it received considerate notice in some of...
Chapters (96)
- THE Coming Ice Age.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. CAUSE OF COLD AND MILD PERIODS.
- CHAPTER II. HOW ICE PERIODS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ARE BROUGHT ABOUT.
- CHAPTER III. THE SPREAD OF GLACIERS DURING COLD EPOCHS.
- CHAPTER IV. THE GLACIERS OF THE TEMPERATE ZONES.
- CHAPTER V. REMARKS ON THEORIES ADVANCED FOR EXPLAINING ICE PERIODS.
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