 | James D. Dana - 1875 - 846 lehte
...tribes of Europe and Asia, and, at the same time, to have driven southward the more active of survivors, or those which had the best chance for escape. The...existence of remains of the Reindeer in southern France, in vast quantities, of the Marmot, also a northern species, and of the Ibex and Chamois, now Alpine... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1906 - 102 lehte
...fossils have been found just about as far north as explorers have ever gone; while Dana says that, "The encasing in ice of huge elephants, and the perfect...of a single winter's night, and knew no relenting afterwards."* Now, if no one can deny this sudden change of climate over half the world or so at least,... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1913 - 282 lehte
...in Northern Siberia, where he says that their encasing in ice and the perfect preservation of their flesh "shows that the cold finally became suddenly...winter's night, and knew no relenting afterward." Not very many serious attempts have been made to account for this remarkable state of things, which... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1913 - 290 lehte
...wonder that even an orthodox geologist like Professor Dana is compelled to say that these things prove "that the cold finally became suddenly extreme, as...winter's night, and knew no relenting afterward." Here then is one very notable geological event which has taken place within the human epoch, and the... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 lehte
...animals show that the climate in which they luxuriated " was abruptly terminated," as Dana says, and " became suddenly extreme as of a single winter's night, and knew no relenting afterwards." This is fact, not fancy. 232 This mild, equable climate of springlike loveliness was conducive... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1923 - 742 lehte
...indicating a great difference of age and conditions of erosion. (After Gilbert.) presses it, the cold "became suddenly extreme, as of a single winter's night, and knew no relenting afterwards." How this sudden change of climate could take place in this part of the earth without affecting... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1995 - 514 lehte
...fossils have been found just about as far north as explorers have ever gone; while Dana says that, "The encasing in ice of huge elephants, and the perfect...of a single winter's night, and knew no relenting afterwards."* Now, if no one can deny this sudden change of climate over half the world or so at least,... | |
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The encasing in ice of huge elephants, and the perfect preservation of the flesh, shows that the cold finally became suddenly extreme, as of a single winter's night, and knew no relenting afterwards... 