The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its MeteorologyHarper & Brothers, 1860 - 474 strani |
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The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology Matthew Fontaine Maury Predogled ni na voljo - 2003 |
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Africa agents annual Arctic Ocean ascend Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere average barometer basin blow bottom calm belt Cape Cape Horn circulation climates cloud-ring clouds coast cold condensed cool cross deep depth difference direction diurnal rotation drift earth east equator equatorial calms extra-tropical fact fathoms feet flow fogs force fresh water Gulf Stream heat icebergs inches Indian Ocean intertropical Islands lakes land and sea land-breeze latent heat latitude marine Mediterranean miles Mississippi moisture monsoon motion mountains navigation northeast northern observations Pacific parallel physical Plate polar side pole precipitation quantity rain rainless reason Red Sea rivers sailing salt sea breezes sea water ship shores solid matter southeast trade-winds southeast trades southern hemisphere southwest specific gravity square miles Straits supply supposed surface current temperature thermal tion trade-wind region tropical upper current vapor velocity vessels warm water whence winds winter zone
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 279 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Stran 19 - THERE is a river in the ocean : in the severest droughts it> color. it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm ; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.
Stran 279 - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Stran 279 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Stran 78 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Stran 279 - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, "We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Stran 50 - Every west wind that blows crosses the stream on its way to Europe, and carries with it a portion of this heat to temper there the northern winds of winter. It is the influence of this stream upon climate that makes Erin the
Stran 346 - ... the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, and partly to the different positions in which a spectator is placed in different zones of the globe.
Stran 13 - Softer than the finest down — more impalpable than the finest gossamer, — it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight.
Stran 332 - ... is from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea^ like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and we may readily imagine that the "sunless wrecks...