Ice
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 4 January 1866
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Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 590-592
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the effect of the build up of ice during the glacial epoch upon the level of the ocean and his belief that the level of the ocean would not be lowered by the accumulation of ice as the level of the water would adjust itself to the altered centre of gravity of the earth, 4 January 1866.
Dates:
4 January 1866
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 17 April 1866
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Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 611-612
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the quantity of heat received from the sun between two equinoxes, the effect of Perihelion and Aphelion on the length and strength of summers and winters and the effect of the formation of ice and snow on the levels of heat given off from the earth, 17 April 1866.
Dates:
17 April 1866
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 23 April 1866
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Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 615-618
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the temperature of the earth in both winter and summer and how this temperature is affected by the position of the earth in relation to the sun and snow and ice throughout the world, 23 April 1866.
Dates:
23 April 1866