Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 402 pages Biographical accounts up to the time of commencement of the first Fram expedition, 1893-96. |
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Page 147
... remains of plant and animal life , regions as far south as Italy had then a cold , raw climate , and the Mediterranean contained numbers of animals which have now retreated very much further north . In the south - eastern portion of ...
... remains of plant and animal life , regions as far south as Italy had then a cold , raw climate , and the Mediterranean contained numbers of animals which have now retreated very much further north . In the south - eastern portion of ...
Page 150
... remains . Geologists have laboriously investigated sections of stratified soil and gravel , now laid bare by river or brook , now by the construction of a road or railway , and have accumulated in the course of years an enormously rich ...
... remains . Geologists have laboriously investigated sections of stratified soil and gravel , now laid bare by river or brook , now by the construction of a road or railway , and have accumulated in the course of years an enormously rich ...
Page 151
... remains have been discovered belonging to species now found in North Siberia and on the shores of the Polar Sea . Hence we draw the inevitable conclusion that after the land ice had deposited its moraines and retreated northward from ...
... remains have been discovered belonging to species now found in North Siberia and on the shores of the Polar Sea . Hence we draw the inevitable conclusion that after the land ice had deposited its moraines and retreated northward from ...
Page 152
... remains of animal and vegetable life they contain , record the course of these slow climatic changes , and bear witness to alternating glacial and temperate periods . In this connection there have been few incidents of greater interest ...
... remains of animal and vegetable life they contain , record the course of these slow climatic changes , and bear witness to alternating glacial and temperate periods . In this connection there have been few incidents of greater interest ...
Page 153
... remains of a great sheet of land ice , which must once have extended over the whole of Northern Asia and right to the Pole ; the New Siberia Islands and Sanni- koff Land being , in his view , relics of a great Polar conti- nent ...
... remains of a great sheet of land ice , which must once have extended over the whole of Northern Asia and right to the Pole ; the New Siberia Islands and Sanni- koff Land being , in his view , relics of a great Polar conti- nent ...
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