 ... passing into a colder portion of space, or the amount of solar heat being diminished. But the former supposition has no warrant from geology, and astronomy affords no evidence for the latter view, which, besides, would imply a diminution of evaporation...  The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 2231864Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 474 pages
...which besides would imply a diminution of evaporation militating as much against the glacier theory as would an excess of heat. An attempt has recently...observed in Norway, and stated to support this view, are evidently nothing but the results ordinarily observed in ranges of hills, one side of which fronts... | |
 | 1864 - 968 pages
...which besides would imply a diminution of evaporation militating as much against the glacier theory as would an excess of heat. An attempt has recently...and if it existed, it could not produce the effects requirea, unless a preternatural arrest were at the same time laid on the winds, which spread the temperature... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1868 - 754 pages
...which, besides, would imply a diminution of evaporation militating as much against the glacier theory as would an excess of heat. An attempt has recently...observed in Norway, and stated to support this view, are evidently nothing but the results ordinarily observed in ranges of hills, one side of which fronts... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1878 - 868 pages
...which, besides, would imply a diminution of evaporation militating as much against the glacier theory as would an excess of heat. An attempt has recently...observed in Norway, and stated to support this view, are evidently nothing but the results ordinarily observed in ranges of hills, one side of which fronts... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1878 - 606 pages
...temperature of the sea conjointly with a lower temperature of the land, Dr. Dawson remarks that such an " inversion of the usual state of things is unwarranted...spread the temperature of the sea over the land." The author has " failed to find, even in our higher mountains, any distinct signs of glacier action, though... | |
 | Samuel Almond Miller - 1881 - 354 pages
...temperature of the land; but this inversion of the usual state of things is unwarranted by the doctrine of secular cooling of the earth; , it is contradicted...observed in Norway, and stated to support this view, are evidently nothing but the results ordinarily observed in ranges of hills, one side of which fronts... | |
 | Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth - 1893 - 416 pages
...cooler than at present, is a pretty scheme, but it fails at all points. As Principal Dawson says : " It is contradicted by the fossils of the period, which...were colder than at present, and if it existed it would not produce the results required, unless a preternatural arrest were at the same time laid on... | |
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