Discussions on climate and cosmology / by James Croll.

  • James Croll
Date:
1885
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    Ho worth, Mr., on mammoth in Europe, 186 on evidence from shells, 183 on plants of Can- stadt, 189 ,, cited, 180, 182, 187 Huggins, Mr., on nebula, 308 Hull, Prof., on great Irwell fault, 268 Hutton, Dr., on expansive force of ice in freezing, 215 Hypothesis, reason for avoiding, 26 ICE of Greenland and Antarctic continent, 64 ,, at S. Pole, why it is thick, 78, 81 another reason why it does not melt, 123 ,, permanent without perpetual snow, 89 ,, melting point lowered by pressure, 215, 227 ,, melting, resulting from mutual reaction of the physical' causes, 122 ,, paleochrystic, 77 ,, cliffs of America, 192 ,, how moved up hill slopes, 255 Icebergs, Antarctic, peculiar ice formation of, 70 ,, testimony of, 207 ,, found in SouthernOcean, 207 ,, of Southern Ocean, enor- mous size of, 208 ,, mean density of, 209 ,, estimates of their thick- ness, 209 ,, height of, determined by their mean density, 210 Ice-sheet, Antarctic, conditions of, 202 ,, ofnorth-westernEurope, extent of, 246 ,, interior of, warmer than surface, 217 ,, explanation of passage across valleys, 255 Ice strata, variations is not due to pressure or melting, 231 ,, thinning out of, due to dispersion, 232 Incandescence of Nebulous masses, how produced, 284 Indiga, port of, 182 Interglacial beds of Scotland, 130 of England, 131 ,, of Germany, 133 ,, of Switzerland, 133 Interglacial climate, characteris- tics of, 185 ,, periods in Siberia, 184 Interglacial periods in Greenland, 195 ,, of Pleistocene times, 127 ,, interval be- tween, 137 ,, difficulty in detecting cli- matic charac- ter, 135 ,, objection as to the number of, 137 ,, probably five, 137 ,, number de- tected in Germany, Denmark, &c., 138 ,, shorter than Glacial, 141 ,, less marked in temperate regions than Glacial, 141 Intertropical water, effect on polar climate, 165 Internal heat of the earth, 2 JAMIESON, Mr. on ice mark- ings on Schiehallion, 212 Jenson, on Greenland ice, 64 Jentzsch, Dr., on German Inter- glacial beds, 133