 The vapor is taken from the surface water; the surface water thereby becomes more salt, and, under certain conditions, heavier ; when it becomes heavier, it sinks ; and hence we have, due to the salts of the sea, a vertical circulation, namely, a descent...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 1281870Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 798 pages
...; it therefore sinks ; and hence we have due to the salts of the sea a vertical circulation, viz. : a descent of heavier — because salter and cooler...because it is not so salt — from the depths below. This vapor then which is taken up from the evaporating regions — by which is meant those regions... | |
 | 1853 - 802 pages
...heavier; it therefore sinks; and hence we have due to the salts of the sea a vertical circulation, viz. : a descent of heavier — because salter and cooler — water from the surface, and an accent of water that is lighter — because it is not so salt — from the depths below. This vapor... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1855 - 304 pages
...becomes heavier, it sinks ; and hence we have, due to the salts of the sea, a vertical circulation, viz., a descent of heavier — because salter and cooler...because it is not so salt — from the depths below. 312. This vapor, then, which is taken up from the evaporating regions (§ 126), is carried by the winds... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 pages
...portion of it was converted into vapor. 518. The vapor is taken from the surface water; the surface water thereby becomes more salt, and, under certain conditions,...because it is not so salt — from the depths below. 519. This vapor, then, which is taken up from the evaporating regions (§ 179), is carried by the winds... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 pages
...to be precipitated in the same manner. " Hence we have, due to the salts of the sea," says Maury, " a vertical circulation; namely, a descent of heavier...because it is not so salt — from the depths below." This continual ascending and descending .movement drags down into the ocean depths the mass of water... | |
 | James Croll - 1875 - 632 pages
...solution, specifically heavier than it was before any portion of it was converted into vapour " (S 517). " The vapour is taken from the surface-water...In the precipitating regions, therefore, the level vs destroyed, as before explained, by elevation, and in the evaporating regions by depression ; which,... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1853 - 604 pages
...; it therefore sinks; and hence we have due to the salts of the sea, a vertical circulation, viz : a descent of heavier — because salter and cooler...because it is not so salt — from the depths below. THE WIND AND CURRENT CHARTS. which produces an under current from the Mediterranean, and an under current... | |
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