Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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Pāgina 82
... recent decades , evidence for short and calamitous events has grown along with the popularity of catastrophism . The impact theory helped revive catastrophism as an alternate mechanism for change . Its impact brought to human ...
... recent decades , evidence for short and calamitous events has grown along with the popularity of catastrophism . The impact theory helped revive catastrophism as an alternate mechanism for change . Its impact brought to human ...
Pāgina 92
... recent ones lasted for about 100,000 years . This may not seem long , but the most recent one or two ice ages encompass all of the existence of Homo sapiens sapiens and its close cousin , Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ; these are the ...
... recent ones lasted for about 100,000 years . This may not seem long , but the most recent one or two ice ages encompass all of the existence of Homo sapiens sapiens and its close cousin , Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ; these are the ...
Pāgina 143
... recent years the total biomass in Europe in the form of standing vegetation , that is , trees , has increased . In fact , some in- vestigators suspect that the missing sink of carbon dioxide might be the vegetation . Whether pollution ...
... recent years the total biomass in Europe in the form of standing vegetation , that is , trees , has increased . In fact , some in- vestigators suspect that the missing sink of carbon dioxide might be the vegetation . Whether pollution ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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