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Excerpt from The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood, Vol. 2 of 2: A Second Appeal to Common Sense From the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology - The glacial period and the Sahara - Escher von der Linth Dove - Schmick's theory of the transference of the zone of heat to each hemisphere - Pilar and Bruhns - Ademar's theory that the alternate glaciation of each hemisphere is due to greatly increased radiation - Croll's criticism of the theory Croll's own theory - Greater accumulation of snow in summer, when the earth's eccentricity is at its superior limit and the winter solstice in aphelion - This view unsupported by the facts - The view that the greater snowfall of the winters in such a case would not be compensated by the intenser heat of summer also unsupported - Criticisms of Croll's view by Hill, Wallace and Lyell - Warm winds and not the direct action of the sun the chief snow-eaters - Oroll's three reasons for persistence of snow examined and criticized - Views of New comb, Searles Wood, etc.-croll's main view that the glacial climate was due to the divergence of ocean currents is postulates, that the ocean currents are the great distributers of heat, and that they are chiefly caused by the winds, justified His theory that the warm ocean currents which reach the Arctic and Antarctic zones are due to the Trade winds, ex amined is theory, in regard to the greater potency of one set of Trades Over the other causing an alternation in the amount of warm water in each hemisphere, examined and answered - The position of the equatorial current is regulated largely by that of the earth's equator of heat, which is inde pendent oi the Trades and dependent on the relative quantity of land in the low latitudes of either hemisphere - Croll's theory breaks down - Murphy's and Wallace's modifications of Croll's theory examined and answered - Sir R. Ball's views criticized - All the meteorological causes hitherto cited are as inemxcient as the astronomical ones in producing a glacial period or a recurrence of glacial periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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