The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
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... hemisphere ; and , what is still more extraordinary , that on a hemisphere of which a point in St. George's Channel between England and Ireland is the centre , the land is nearly equal in extent to the water , while in the opposite ...
... hemisphere ; and , what is still more extraordinary , that on a hemisphere of which a point in St. George's Channel between England and Ireland is the centre , the land is nearly equal in extent to the water , while in the opposite ...
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... hemisphere must have been covered with a sheet of ice several thousand feet thick , like that which now envelopes the interior of Green- land . Much further south the mountains were covered with perpetual snow , and sent glaciers down ...
... hemisphere must have been covered with a sheet of ice several thousand feet thick , like that which now envelopes the interior of Green- land . Much further south the mountains were covered with perpetual snow , and sent glaciers down ...
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... hemisphere signs of ice - action extend . In the southern hemisphere , in Patagonia and in New Zealand , exactly similar phenomena occur . A very interesting confirmation of the reality of this cold epoch is derived from the study of ...
... hemisphere signs of ice - action extend . In the southern hemisphere , in Patagonia and in New Zealand , exactly similar phenomena occur . A very interesting confirmation of the reality of this cold epoch is derived from the study of ...
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... hemisphere within the glaciated districts , the summits of lofty mountains produce plants identical with those of the polar regions . In the celebrated case of the White Mountains in New Hampshire , United States ( latitude 45 ° ) , all ...
... hemisphere within the glaciated districts , the summits of lofty mountains produce plants identical with those of the polar regions . In the celebrated case of the White Mountains in New Hampshire , United States ( latitude 45 ° ) , all ...
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... hemispheres from any chance of intermixture . This one barrier would be more effectual than it is now , since there would be no lofty mountain ranges to serve as a bridge for the partial interchange of northern and southern forms . 3 ...
... hemispheres from any chance of intermixture . This one barrier would be more effectual than it is now , since there would be no lofty mountain ranges to serve as a bridge for the partial interchange of northern and southern forms . 3 ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions