The Coming Ice Age

Traces of ancient glaciers in temperate zones, 9; prevailing winds the main cause of the circulation of the ocean waters between the tropical and temperate zones, 10; general di...

Northern seas during Tertiary age, 37; Gulf Stream during Tertiary times, 38; the origin of a cold period in the northern hemisphere, 38; remarks on Gulf Stream and arctic curre...

Spread of glaciers in tropical zone, 54; Professor Agassiz on the origin of Galapagos Islands, 55; the bowlders of Hood’s Island and rookery of Albatross, 56; alpine flora of Ga...

Professor Hitchcock on the early history of North America, 62; glacial deposits of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, 63; Professor James Geikie on the glacial deposits of Norther...

Professor Geikie on supposed causes of the glacial period, 76; change in the relative level of the land and sea during glacial and post-glacial times, 77; submergence of norther...

It is now generally conceded by those who have given the subject much attention that the greater portion of North America above the latitude of 39° north to the shores of the Ar...

A large number of geologists are of the opinion that during the whole of the Tertiary period the climate of the northern temperate and arctic latitudes was uniformly warm, witho...

I have before explained that the conditions are such that the cold periods of the northern and southern hemispheres were concurrent. Through this cause, while the glacial epoch...

Having asserted that during the culmination of a frigid period the ice-sheets spread over a portion of the lands of the tropical zone, I will give my views, with those of severa...

Many of his views advanced in this lecture were so much in accordance with my own that I am induced to repeat them. He said that the glacial period was a general phenomenon due...