Author: Laboratory of Climatology (C.W. Thornthwaite Associates)
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ISBN: OCLC:6945959
Category: Evapotranspiration
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The Story of Our Continent
At the same time , the heat of the tropics , not having the chance to escape ,
which is now afforded by the ocean streams which the continents divert towards
either pole , would be far greater than at present , probably too great for the life of
man ...
Author: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105049337202
Category: Geology
Page: 290
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Geology and Geophysics of the Venezuelan Continental Margin Between Blanquilla and Orchilla Islands
As he believed that sea floor spreading did not commence in the Atlantic until the
mid - Mesozoic , he suggested that the Caribbean crust is either a relict primitive
oceanic crust a continental crust that subsided very early in geologic time .
Author: George Peter
Publisher:
ISBN: PSU:000072020579
Category: Geology
Page: 82
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Cornell s Physical Geography
THE SOUTH - EASTERN CONTINENT , or Australia , which much in the Eastern
Hemisphere as in the Western . has an area of 3 ... Its form is regular and
compact ; there are no deep indentations of gulfs or bays , as in the other
continents .
Author: Sophia S. Cornell
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:HN32E5
Category: Physical geography
Page: 103
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Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
caused its surface to sink below that of the continents ; and the depressions thus
developed became the future ocean - basins , which , like the continents , are ,
according to this theory necessarily of a permanent character . Indeed , it is a
plain ...
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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ISBN: MINN:31951D00651588Q
Category: Natural history
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Collected Reprints
Only the lofty Himalayan rampart facing India attains the scale of a continental
slope . If the ocean waters were removed , the continents would stand as
pedestals everywhere . The continental slopes are the margins of the continents
and ...
Author:
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105133453832
Category: Marine meteorology
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
TOPICAL ANALYSIS. TI. FORMS OF LAND. 1. Horizontal Forms. Irregularity of
continental outlines. Difference between northern nnd southern continents.
Relation of this difference to commerce. 2. Vertical Forms. Average elevation of
the land.
Author: M. F. MAURY
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Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
It is probable , therefore , that rocks lying within a few hundred or a few thousand
feet of the surface are unable to resist such stresses as are imposed by
continents . At greater depths we pass beyond the range of conditions which we
can ...
Author: Geological Society of America
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ISBN: UOM:39015000439821
Category: Geology
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Vols. 1-44 include Proceedings of the annual meeting, 1889-1933, later published separately.The Continents
Provides activities and puzzles for elementary students studying world geography and the continents.
Author: Jeanne Cheyney
Publisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 0673360725
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 168
View: 594
Provides activities and puzzles for elementary students studying world geography and the continents.On Some Properties of the Earth
As the relation of density of sea and continent , nearly that of the two greatest
planets , is connected with the organisation of the solar system , so is the relation
of the northern and southern hemispheres connected with this organisation .
Author: Oskar Reichenbach
Publisher:
ISBN: NYPL:33433090741111
Category: Earth
Page: 376
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Annual Report of the State Geologist for
Following the period of readjustment , the waters confined in the interior by the
elevated rim of the continent , became a landlocked sea inhabited by non -
marine types of life . In the shallow seas upon the outer borders of the continent
which ...
Author: New Jersey Geological Survey, 1863-1915
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105018511464
Category: Geology
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The Continents
Briefly introduces Earth's seven continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica.
Author: Jennifer Waters
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756503787
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 24
View: 744
Briefly introduces Earth's seven continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica.The Works of Jacques Bernadin Henri de Saint Pierre
Accompanied with a Memoir of His Life, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By
Frederic Shoberl ... In Four Volumes . Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Wise disposition
of the continents . rid zone and in its vicinity , the lofty chains of snow . covered ...
Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0022891894
Category: French literature
Page: 399
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Public Opinion
what exquisite tenderness he writes of the neglected little son of sinful eral
resemblance in the shapes of the continents , as well as the similarities Becky ,
gently leading his father to a purer existence ; how marvelous in their disposition
over ...
Author:
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105026461751
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The gallery of nature a pictorial and descriptive tour through creation A new edition carefully revised
Looking at the outline of the continents , we see the coast of the old world ,
excepting Africa , indented perpetually by considerable bays , gulfs , and inland
seas , while the whole western and the south - eastern sides of the new world are
...
Author: Thomas Milner
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0021811236
Category:
Page: 12
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The Mysteries of the Ocean Translated Edited and Enlarged by W H Davenport Adams New Edition Revised
77 in reference to the causes which gave to the southern portions of the two great
continents their elongated triangular form . This authority refers to the same
epoch of the precipitation of the waters the formation and general plan of the
great ...
Author: Arthur MANGIN
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0022039160
Category:
Page: 470
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Geophysical Abstracts
Marine geophysical data from the Pacific Ocean south of 35 ° S. have furnished
supporting evidence for continental drift , origin and evolution of ocean basins ,
relation of earthquakes to tectonic provinces and processes , and distribution and
...
Author:
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ISBN: UCR:31210022211070
Category: Geophysics
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Studies in the Creative Week
It is precisely this inequality of surface which tempers the action of the heat and
the winds, and which makes possible the magnificent river systems of the
continents. Let the earth be but an unbroken table-land, and it would swiftly
become an ...
Author: George Dana Boardman
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015063544202
Category: Bible and evolution
Page: 338
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Annual Report of the Regents
What is the order of the continents in extent of surface ? 7 . What is the order of
the continents in extent of coast line ? 8 . At what point has the eastern continent
the greatest elevation , and at what point has it the greatest depression ? 9 .
Author: University of the State of New York
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ISBN: UOM:39015076547937
Category: Education
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No. 104-117 contain also the Regents bulletins.Pamphlets on Biology
Pfeiffer , in his Monographs , divides the inoperculate land shells , including the
Proserpinaceæ , into thirty - three genera , of which twenty are specifically
represented on the continents of America , and eighteen in the West India Islands
.
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ISBN: UCAL:B3069709
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