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The Probable Solution of the Climate Problem in Geology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Wilhelm Ramsay
Wilhelm Ramsay
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Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Helsingfors, Finland.
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to give an interpretation, not only of the appearance of ice ages, but also of the greater changes of climate registered in the geological record. In view of the importance ascribed in this discussion to relief, I have named the theory the relief hypothesis.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , April 1924 , pp. 152 - 163
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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