II.—On the Possibility of Changes in the Latitudes of Places on the Earth's Surface; being an Appeal to Physicists
Mr. Hill's paper in the June Number of the Magazine has incited me to recur to the great question possibility of changes in the earth's axis of rotation within itself. Mr. Hill is well known to be an accomplished geologist; but he writes as if he were simply a physicist, without sympathies...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0016756800150423 2024-03-03T08:42:02+00:00 II.—On the Possibility of Changes in the Latitudes of Places on the Earth's Surface; being an Appeal to Physicists Fisher, O. 1878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800150423 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800150423 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 5, issue 7, page 291-297 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1878 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800150423 2024-02-08T08:40:02Z Mr. Hill's paper in the June Number of the Magazine has incited me to recur to the great question possibility of changes in the earth's axis of rotation within itself. Mr. Hill is well known to be an accomplished geologist; but he writes as if he were simply a physicist, without sympathies for the difficulties of his brethren of the hammer. Yet we feel certain that such is not the case. We know that he has studied in the field the tremendous movements which the strata have undergone, being often compressed into a small part of their original length: that he has appreciated the almost ubiquitous presence, either in past or present time, of volcanic activity: that he must feel how unsatisfactory all explanations short of a change in latitude are to account for the flora of a warm climate within the arctic circle. We therefore appeal to him, and to others similarly qualified, to look at this subject from both sides. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press Arctic Geological Magazine 5 7 291 297 |
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Mr. Hill's paper in the June Number of the Magazine has incited me to recur to the great question possibility of changes in the earth's axis of rotation within itself. Mr. Hill is well known to be an accomplished geologist; but he writes as if he were simply a physicist, without sympathies for the difficulties of his brethren of the hammer. Yet we feel certain that such is not the case. We know that he has studied in the field the tremendous movements which the strata have undergone, being often compressed into a small part of their original length: that he has appreciated the almost ubiquitous presence, either in past or present time, of volcanic activity: that he must feel how unsatisfactory all explanations short of a change in latitude are to account for the flora of a warm climate within the arctic circle. We therefore appeal to him, and to others similarly qualified, to look at this subject from both sides. |
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