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Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations

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Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations

James Croll

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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

  1. 1CLIMATE AND TIME IN THEIR GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4LIST OF PLATES.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. OCEAN-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.—(Continued.)
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. OUTLINE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENCIES WHICH LEAD TO SECULAR CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. REASON WHY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS COLDER THAN THE NORTHERN.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY.
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—LIEUT. MAURY’S THEORY (continued).
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—THE MECHANICS OF DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.
  14. 14CHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.—DR. CARPENTER’S THEORY.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
  15. 15CHAPTER XI. THE INADEQUACY OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY PROVED BY ANOTHER METHOD.
  16. 16CHAPTER XII. MR. A. G. FINDLAY’S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN RELATION TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.

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