Discussions on climate and cosmology / by James Croll.

  • Croll, James, 1821-1890.
Date:
1885
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    IND EX. ACER pseudo-plati7ius, 189 Adamshina, 181, 193 Aerial currents, heat of, 23 currents, misapprehensions regarding, 23 Age of sun, 282 ,, of sun in relation to evolu- tion, 288 Air at the Equator, why not hotter in January, 59-63 Alnaster friUicosus, 183 ,, in Siberia, 184 Alps, elevation of, 174 Alternations of climate, evidence of, 160 Anodonta anatina, 184 Antarctic ground under ice, tem- perature of, 226 ,, land flatness proved by stratification of ice, 229 ,, continent, ice of, 64 Antarctic ice, Captain Sir F. J. 0. Evans' Theory of, 77 ,, formed on flat land, 72-78 ,, and geographical conditions, 110 ,, on the melting of, 111 present extension, cause of, 113 ,, temperature of, 213 ,, compression and friction in rela- tion to, 218 ,, pressure cannot raise its tempe- rature, 231 influence of eccen- tricity on, 111 Antarctic ice, thickness of, proved by icebergs, 211 ,, absolutely free from stones or gravel, 230 thickness of due to difficulty of re- moval, 239 ,, rate of motion of, 237 cause of motion of, 240 estimate of area covered by, 238 conclusions estab- lished regarding, 241 Antarctic icebergs, peculiar for- mation, 70-73 ,, an important con- sequence of, 74 Sir Wyville Thom- son on, 203 Antarctic ice-cap, section across, 243 ,, shallowness of, il- lustrated, 243 ,, motion of, due to piling up of ice at centre, 234 Antarctic ice-sheet, physical con- ditions of, 202 ,, thickness of, not limited by pres- sure, 224 ,, annual discharge of icebergs from, 238 ,, temperature deter- mined mainly by that of its surface, 220