Sentences with phrase «much sunlight falls»

The timing of the ice ages is believed to be controlled mainly by the earth's orbit and tilt, which determines how much sunlight falls on each hemisphere.

'' The authors attribute the cooling from 7,000 years ago until the Medieval Warm Period to changes in Earth's orientation toward the sun, which affected how much sunlight fell on both poles.

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So back to daylight / sunlight its a sign of the seasons right, as much as I do love fall I am truly not happy with the lack of daylight hours especially during the week.

As much as I want the halcyon days of Raymond Carver sending off his ream of short stories to Gordon Lish in New York to return — the old bear - man sighing contentedly as he finishes his last bottle of gin, burping gently as his eyes caress the waning sunlight falling over the hood of his new hard - won Cadillac as the publishing industry churns in that vast belly of the East Coast Moloch — but let's be serious.

In much of his work, Falls has investigated deterioration and photographic exposure, focusing on the long - term effects of sunlight, rain, and time on materials like paper, steel, painted aluminum, and cloth.

The existence of the glaciers would lower the average temperature of the Earth by reflecting back much of the sunlight that fell on them, and slowly sea ice in the Arctic Ocean would form and expand.