The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (1877) (14579965779)

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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London

Year: 1845 (1840s)

Authors: Geological Society of London

Subjects: Geology

Publisher: London (etc.)

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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- AUSTP AUSTRALIAN CAINOZOIC (TERTIARY) DEPOSITS. 73 would be sufficient to account for these changes of climate on thesurface of the globe. Prof. Ramsay could not agree with the last speaker in thinkingthat radiation in cooling would produce any palpable effect on thesurface of the globe. So far from there being any proof that theclimate.had been gradually growing colder from the earliest timesdown to the present date, there was every evidence to show thatglacial periods had recurred at different periods in past time. Dr.Duncan and Mr. Evans had merely given suggestions, but had notsolved the problem and proved that the poles did not occupy thesame position in Miocene times that they do today. Darwin andDana were both agreed in thinking the present continents to be ofextreme antiquity. Great elevations of land had taken place priorto the Miocene epoch. The Alps and the Himalayas were bothpre-Miocene, and were probably higher in pre-Miocene times thanat present, having been subjected

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