Sentences with phrase «theory of glacial periods»

Croll was actually a janitor at Edinburgh University and was self - taught in celestial mechanics and very interested in Louis Agassiz theory of glacial periods.

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Kent points out that according to the Milankovitch theory, we should be at the peak of a 20,000 - some year warming trend that ended the last glacial period; the Earth may eventually start cooling again over thousands of years, and possibly head for another glaciation.
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