The earth and its inhabitants (1894) (14786168353)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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olarwands passing over Turkestan, Persia, and Syria arrive almost comj)letely deprivedof moisture, and under their dry breath the summer heats become oppressive. In South America the line of greatest heat, which nearly coincides with theseaboard between the Gulf of Uraba and Cape Sao Roque, scarcely represents anaverage of more than 80° or 82° Fahr,, whereas in Africa the correspondingisothermal traverses a zone where the normal temperature exceeds 86° Fahr,, andwhere the heat is tempered by no sea breezes, as it is on the Colombian andVenezuelan coastlands. 28 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. On the other hand, the southern section of South America may be regarded aslying within a cold zone, where the thermometer falls to 41° or even 39° Fahr.on the plains, standing at a slight elevation above sea-level. On the coast rangesthe temperature, falling with the altitude, soon reaches freezing point. In this Fig. 9.—Main Geological Divisions of Sottth America.Scale 1 : 55,000,000.
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Crystalline, volcanic,and paleozoic rocks. Mesozoieformation. Recentformations. . 1,240 Miles. southern region the natural limit between the temperate and frigid zones is clearlyindicated on the west side by the fjords indenting the Chilian seaboard. Thesudden break in the uniformity of the coastline occurs a little north of 42° southlatitude, at the Chacao passage separating the island of Chiloe from the mainland. CLIMATE OF SOUTH AMEEICA. 29 In the nortliern hemisphere the zone of fjords, representing the work of ancientglaciers, is shifted nearly 430 miles farther from the equator, that is, to 48° northlatitude, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca gives access to the great fjord known Fig. 10. — ISOTHKRMAL LiNES OF SoUTH AMERICA.Scale 1 : 55,000,000. ^^^^v-i^^

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