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RefNoAP/60/3
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Notes on physical geology. A geological proof that the changes of climate in past times were not due to changes in the position of the Pole; with an attempt to assign a minor limit to the position of geological time' by Samuel Haughton
Date1877
DescriptionHaughton writes on the climate and mean monthly temperatures of locations including the Parry Islands [Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada], New Orleans [USA], Melville Island [Canada], Spitzbergen [Spitsbergen, Norway] and Alaska in the Jurassic period, Triassic period and contemporary era.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Proceedings XXVII'.

Subject: Geology / Mathematics

Received 15 February 1877.
Extent31p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1878.0176
RelatedRecordRR/8/106
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CodePersonNameDates
NA2959Haughton; Samuel (1821 - 1897)1821 - 1897
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