| Electronic journals - 1893 - 988 pages
...Sir William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), inferred from his investigations upon the cooling of the earth, that the general climate cannot be sensibly affected...time more than 10,000 years after the commencement of the superficial solidification. Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, 1883, Vol. I, pt. 2, p.... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 516 pages
...Williiim Thompson (LordKelvin) inferred from his investigations upon the cooling of the earth, thnt Mie general climate cannot be sensibly affected by conducted heat at any time more than 10.000 years after tliu commencement of superficial solidification. Treatise on Natural Philosophy.... | |
| Henry Woodward - Geology - 1878 - 638 pages
...assumption of a globe of molten materials to commence with. According to Sir W. Thomson's expressed opinion, "The general climate cannot be sensibly affected by...after the commencement of superficial solidification." So that as the rate of deposition of sedimentary rocks cannot by this hypothesis have been affected... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...augment the temperature of the surface by much more than about 1° ; and hence I infer that the genera! climate cannot be sensibly affected by conducted heat...an elevation of temperature by thermal springs, or bv eruptions of melted lava, and everywhere vegetation would, for the first three or four million years,... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1875 - 486 pages
...have proved that the general climate of our globe could not have been sensibly affected by internal heat, at any time, more than 10,000 years after the commencement of the solidification of the surface, and he states that the present influence of internal heat on the... | |
| Gjuro Pilar - Glacial epoch - 1876 - 88 pages
...C. per foot Underground to augmeut sensibly the temperature of the surface; and heuce I infer that general climate cannot be sensibly affected by conducted heat at any time more then 10,000 years after the commencement of superficial solidification. No doubt however, in particular... | |
| Science - 1902 - 1030 pages
...ages. " The general climate cannot be sensibly affected by conducted heat (from the earth's interior) at any time more than 10,000 years after the commencement of superficial solidification."* Retention of radiation may be altered temporarily by slight modifications of the earth's atmosphere... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1883 - 564 pages
...foot underground to augment the temperature of the surface by much more than about 1"; and hence T infer that the general climate cannot be sensibly...four million years, if it existed so soon after the ej>och of consolidation, be influenced by the sensibly higher temperature met with by roots extending... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Mathematics - 1890 - 564 pages
...foot underground to augment the temperature of the surface by much more than about 1°; and hence <| infer that the general climate cannot be sensibly...10,000 years after the commencement of superficial solidificatiott^No doubt, however, in particular places there might be an elevation of temperature... | |
| Electronic journals - 1893 - 912 pages
...Sir William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), inferred from his investigations upon the cooling of the earth, that the general climate cannot be sensibly affected...time more than 10,000 years after the commencement of the superficial solidification. Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, 1883, Vol. I, pt. 2, p.... | |
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