Climate and Time in their Geological Relations; a theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

Abstract

MR. CROLL is well known as an original thinker of considerable power, who has turned his attention to the physics of geology, and has produced a series of remarkable papers on questions of the highest interest in that subject. His views are opposed in many respects to those accepted by other influential thinkers, and have given rise to a considerable amount of controversy. Hitherto they have been scattered in papers to various periodicals, and it has been difficult to obtain a consecutive view of them. The work which is now issued, while not an actual reprint of previous papers, is a complete exposition of their contents, or at least of that part of their contents that Mr. Croll is prepared to stand by, some of the arguments that occur in his papers being omitted in his book. We are now therefore able to judge fairly what truth there is in Mr. Croll's ideas, and to compare them with those of his opponents. Even were all his ideas untenable, we should still have to thank him for his vigorous discussion of these interesting questions, but there can be no doubt that in many instances he proves his point.

Climate and Time in their Geological Relations; a theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate.

By James Croll Geological Survey of Scotland. (London: Daldy, Isbister, and Co., 1875.)