Discussions on climate and cosmology / by James Croll.

  • James Croll
Date:
1885
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    Switzerland, Flysch'' of, 173 illustration from ice of, 245 glaciers, temperature determined by pres- sure, 222 TAIT, Prof., on age of the sun, 266. ,, on nebula, 310 Tay Valley, Carse-clays of, 115 Temperature of space, bearing on terrestrial phy- sics, 258 ,, Prof. Langley on, 20 ,, an important factor, 19 ,, mean of ocean, reason why it is high, 26-31 of ocean greater than that of land, 26 Temporary stars, why so rare, 315 causes of, 315 Terrestrial physics, most important problems in, 1 Tertiary period, influence of eccen- tricity during, 157 ,, as affected by ec- centricity, 160 ,, evidence of glacia- tion in, 172 Tertiary fossil floras, Mr. J. Starkie Gardner on, 161 ,, glacial epochs, 164 Thermodynamics, misapprehen- sions regarding, 33 Thomson, Prof. James, on cause of regelation, 250 ,, on lowering of melt- ing point of ice, 215, 227 ,, cited, 203 formula, 227 Thomson, Sir William, on internal heat, 2 theory of several climates, 6 ,, on mild Arctic cli- mates, 148 Thomson, Sir William, on age of earth, 292 J, cited, 14 5, on underground heat, 213 Thomson, Sir Wyville, on Ant- arctic regions, 69- 73, 203 ,, on Antarctic ice- bergs, 70-74 on thickness of Antarctic ice- sheet, 225 on thickness of ice- bergs, 209 ,, on stratification of Antarctic ice, 229 ,, on Antarctic ice- cap, 232 Tidal retardation, argument from, 292 Torrell, Prof., on German inter- glacial beds, 133 Tournoner, M., on shells, 190 Towson, Mr., on icebergs of Southern Ocean, 207 cited, 211 Tropical and Arctic floras, Mr. J. S. Wood on commingling of, 162 Tufa, Prof. J. Geikie on, 187 ,, Mr. Howorth on, 188, 189 ,, of Provence, 188; of Moret, 188; of Canstadt, 189; of Le Celle, 189 ,, of Europe, 187 ,, mollusca of, 190 ,, of Tuscany, 188 Twisden, Rev. J. F., on changes of axis of rotation, 5 cited, 294 Tyndall, Prof., experiments on passage of heat through ice, 252 ,, experiments on heat-absorb- ing power of aqueous vapour, 260 UNDERGROUND heat, 214 „ in re- lation to Antarctic ice-sheet, 225 Unio Uttoralis, 131, 134