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Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations
James Croll
Why do ice ages come and go? James Croll answered with a bold theory linking the earth's orbit, ocean currents, and the distribution of heat across the globe. This foundational work argues that climate has a long, calculable history written in the planet's motion. Pioneering earth science. For readers curious about the deep rhythms that freeze and thaw the world.
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68 chapters
- 1CLIMATE AND TIME IN THEIR GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF PLATES.
- 5CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- 6CHAPTER II. OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
- 7CHAPTER III. OCEAN-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.—(Continued.)
- 8CHAPTER IV. OUTLINE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENCIES WHICH LEAD TO SECULAR CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
- 9CHAPTER V. REASON WHY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS COLDER THAN THE NORTHERN.
- 10CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY.
- 11CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY (continued).
- 12CHAPTER VIII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
- 13CHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—THE MECHANICS OF DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
- 14CHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
- 15CHAPTER XI. THE INADEQUACY OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY PROVED BY ANOTHER METHOD.
- 16CHAPTER XII. MR. A. G. FINDLAY’S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
- 17CHAPTER XIII. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.
- 18CHAPTER XIV. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN RELATION TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
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