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I.—On Evaporation and Eccentricity, as Co-Factors in Glacial Periods1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. Hill
E. Hill
Affiliation:
Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge
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The effects of Evaporation on Temperature have often been considered, yet much remains unknown. I am not aware that any one has called attention to the rapidity of its growth as temperature increases, and the consequences that follow.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 11 , November 1881 , pp. 481 - 484
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1881

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page 484 note 1 These calculations use Dulong and Petit's formula for radiation, and the common assumption that there is a “Temperature of Space” of 150 C helow freezing. Neither is at all satisfactory, but the results probably serve fairly for comparisons.