The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 25. köideThomas Spencer Baynes Werner Company, 1895 |
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... surface of the globe , from the equator to the arctic circle , into climates or parallel zones , corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length of midsummer - day . Within the tropics these zones are ...
... surface of the globe , from the equator to the arctic circle , into climates or parallel zones , corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length of midsummer - day . Within the tropics these zones are ...
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... surface equal to its own sectional area is , when falling obliquely on the earth , spread over a surface which becomes larger in in- verse proportion to the sine of the obliquity . Conse- quently less and less heat continues to be ...
... surface equal to its own sectional area is , when falling obliquely on the earth , spread over a surface which becomes larger in in- verse proportion to the sine of the obliquity . Conse- quently less and less heat continues to be ...
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... surface and to the nature of that surface , whether rock , sand , black soil , or covered with vegetation . Under this head by far . the most important class of con- ditions are those which result in extraordinary modifica- tions ...
... surface and to the nature of that surface , whether rock , sand , black soil , or covered with vegetation . Under this head by far . the most important class of con- ditions are those which result in extraordinary modifica- tions ...
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... surface temperature of sandy deserts often rises to 120 ° , 140 ° , or even to 200 ° , and the shade temperature has been observed as high as 125 ° . It is this hot air , loaded with particles of sand still notter , and driven onwards ...
... surface temperature of sandy deserts often rises to 120 ° , 140 ° , or even to 200 ° , and the shade temperature has been observed as high as 125 ° . It is this hot air , loaded with particles of sand still notter , and driven onwards ...
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... surface of the ground slanting to the sea - shore the cold currents generated by radiation flow down to the sea , and the surface - water being thereby cooled sinks to lower depths . In the same manner no inconsiderable portion of the ...
... surface of the ground slanting to the sea - shore the cold currents generated by radiation flow down to the sea , and the surface - water being thereby cooled sinks to lower depths . In the same manner no inconsiderable portion of the ...
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