I.—On the Former Climate of the Polar Regions
Only a few years ago it was looked upon as an article of faith among geologists, that the whole globe was once in a melted incandescent state, and that the conditions of temperature now prevailing on the surface of the earth have been in process of time produced by the slow gradual cooling of the on...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0016756800160443 2024-03-03T08:42:01+00:00 I.—On the Former Climate of the Polar Regions Nordenskiöld, . A. E. 1875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800160443 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800160443 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 2, issue 11, page 525-532 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1875 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800160443 2024-02-08T08:39:13Z Only a few years ago it was looked upon as an article of faith among geologists, that the whole globe was once in a melted incandescent state, and that the conditions of temperature now prevailing on the surface of the earth have been in process of time produced by the slow gradual cooling of the once fused and glowing mass. It then appeared so natural that, in consequence of the earth’s internal heat, a tropical climate should extend from pole to pole, that no special weight was attached to the evidences of this fact which geology was at that time able to produce. The Dane Giesecke’s and the English Scoresby’s specimens of fossil plants from the east and west coasts of Greenland, evidencing a warm climate there, attracted so little attention, that neither they, nor the fossil remains of Saurians found by the famous Arctic traveller Sir Edward Belcher in the American Polar Archipelago, could be found in the museums to which they had been confided. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Cambridge University Press Arctic Greenland Belcher ENVELOPE(-94.172,-94.172,57.936,57.936) Traveller ENVELOPE(-48.533,-48.533,61.133,61.133) Dane ENVELOPE(-146.667,-146.667,-76.850,-76.850) Geological Magazine 2 11 525 532 |
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Only a few years ago it was looked upon as an article of faith among geologists, that the whole globe was once in a melted incandescent state, and that the conditions of temperature now prevailing on the surface of the earth have been in process of time produced by the slow gradual cooling of the once fused and glowing mass. It then appeared so natural that, in consequence of the earth’s internal heat, a tropical climate should extend from pole to pole, that no special weight was attached to the evidences of this fact which geology was at that time able to produce. The Dane Giesecke’s and the English Scoresby’s specimens of fossil plants from the east and west coasts of Greenland, evidencing a warm climate there, attracted so little attention, that neither they, nor the fossil remains of Saurians found by the famous Arctic traveller Sir Edward Belcher in the American Polar Archipelago, could be found in the museums to which they had been confided. |
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