PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF PLATES.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II. OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
CHAPTER III. OCEAN-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE. ( Continued. )
CHAPTER IV. OUTLINE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENCIES WHICH LEAD TO SECULAR CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
CHAPTER V. REASON WHY THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS COLDER THAN THE NORTHERN.
CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION. LIEUT. MAURY'S THEORY.
CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC
CHAPTER VIII. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION. DR. CARPENTER'S THEORY.
CHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC
CHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY OF OCEANIC
CHAPTER XI. THE INADEQUACY OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY PROVED BY ANOTHER METHOD.
CHAPTER XII. MR. A. G. FINDLAY'S OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
CHAPTER XIII. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION.
CHAPTER XIV. THE WIND THEORY OF OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN RELATION TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
CHAPTER XV. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS.
CHAPTER XVI. WARM INTER-GLACIAL PERIODS IN ARCTIC REGIONS.
CHAPTER XVII. FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS. REASON OF THE
CHAPTER XVIII. FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS; GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF.
CHAPTER XIX. GEOLOGICAL TIME. PROBABLE DATE OF THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
CHAPTER XX. GEOLOGICAL TIME. METHOD OF MEASURING THE RATE OF SUBAERIAL DENUDATION.
CHAPTER XXI. THE PROBABLE AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE SUN.
CHAPTER XXII. A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF THE LAND DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE SUBMERGENCE AND
CHAPTER XXV. THE INFLUENCE OF THE OBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC ON CLIMATE AND ON THE LEVEL OF THE SEA.
CHAPTER XXVI. COAL AN INTER-GLACIAL FORMATION.
CHAPTER XXVII. PATH OF THE ICE-SHEET IN NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE
CHAPTER XXVIII. NORTH OF ENGLAND ICE-SHEET, AND TRANSPORT OF WASTDALE CRAG BLOCKS. [266]
CHAPTER XXIX. EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER CHANNELS OF A CONTINENTAL PERIOD IN BRITAIN. [279]
CHAPTER XXX. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS. THEORIES OF GLACIER-MOTION.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE PHYSICAL CAUSE OF THE MOTION OF GLACIERS. THE MOLECULAR THEORY.
APPENDIX.
INDEX.
