I.—On the Former Climate of the Polar Regions

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Nordenskiöld, . A. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1875
• Subjects: Geology; Arctic; Greenland; Belcher; Traveller; Dane
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800160443; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800160443

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...