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III.—On the Physical Cause of the Submergence and Emergence of the Land During the Glacial Epoch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

James Croll
James Croll
Affiliation:
of the Geological Survey of Scotland.
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The greatest extent of the displacement of the earth's centre of gravity, and consequently the greatest rise of the ocean resulting from that displacement, would of course occur at the time of maximum glaciation, when the ice would be all on one hemisphere. But owing to the following circumstance, a still greater rise than that resulting from the displacement of the earth's centre of gravity alone might take place at some considerable time, either before or after the period of maximum glaciation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 8 , August 1874 , pp. 346 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1874

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page 347 note 1 In a former paper I considered the effects of another cause, viz. the melting of polar ice resulting from an increase of the Obliquity of the Earth's Orbit.—Trans. Glasgow Geol. Soc. vol. ii. p. 177. Phil. Mag. 06, 1867 (Supplement).Google Scholar

page 351 note 1 Origin of Species, chap. xi. (fifth edition).