 | 1887 - 904 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...with all other causes of change of climate, though admitting that some of them may have occupied a secondary place. This will give us, in dealing with... | |
 | 1886 - 982 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...dissimilar from those above sketched have actually occurred in-comparatively recent geological times, to enable us to perceive that we can dispense with all other... | |
 | 1881 - 440 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...subtropical verdure. It is only necessary to add that we actually know that changes not dissimilar from those above sketched have actually occurred in comparatively... | |
 | 1887 - 590 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...regions of Europe and America into a condition of sub-fl-opical verdure. It is only necessary to add that we know that vicissitudes not dissimilar from... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson, British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1886 - 60 pàgines
...increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to sub-ist in Greenland, and to bring all the present temperate...with all other causes of change of climate, though admitting that some of them may have occupied a secondary place.' This will give us, in dealing with... | |
 | 1887 - 596 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...with all other causes of change of climate, though admitting that some of them may have occupied a secondary place.2 This will give us, in dealing 1 According... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 1176 pàgines
...of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase in the surface of warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...with all other causes of change of climate, though admitting that some of them may have occupied a secondary place.2 This will give us, in dealing with... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pàgines
...Mexican Gulf would circulate as far north as the basins of the present American Lakes The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...and America into a condition of subtropical verdure. Those who wish to become thoroughly acquainted with this subject should read Sir William Dawson's remarks... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1893 - 598 pàgines
...the average, its mountains would have large glaciers. So near is England even now to a glacial age. temperate flora to subsist in Greenland, and to bring...subtropical verdure. It is only necessary to add that we actually know that changes not dissimilar from those above sketched have really occurred in comparatively... | |
 | 1887 - 606 pàgines
...of floating ice, and i correspondingly vast increase in the surface ol warm water. The effects would be to enable a temperate flora to subsist in Greenland,...Europe and America into a condition of subtropical vatdnre. The Glacial Period. We have in America ancient periods of cold as well as warmth. I have elsewhere... | |
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... period, the warm waters of the Mexican Gulf would circulate as far north as the basins of the present great American lakes. In these circumstances there would be an immense diminution of the sources of floating ice, and a correspondingly vast increase... 