Arctic explorers have found remains of trees in high latitudes.
Colonel Fielden's explanation of the occurrence of large trees on shores and in recent drift in high latitudes, is now added.
Though a northern bird, it does not unexceptionally repair to high latitudes, but in summer remains to breed in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
They spend the greater portion of the year in high latitudes, where their arrival is celebrated with great rejoicings, as an indication of returning summer.
This would not only enable the westerlies, which are really southwesterlies, to carry more heat than now to high latitudes, but would still further strengthen the ocean currents.
Thus everything may have combined to produce mild conditions in high latitudes, and to diminish the contrast between equator and pole, and between summer and winter.
In a glacial epoch or in the arsis of an historic pulsation, storms are usually abundant and severe, the mean temperature is lower than usual, snow accumulates in high latitudes or upon lofty mountains.
It is a well-known fact, that the prevailing current of the atmosphere in high latitudes is from the westward.
The effect also should be greater in the tropics than in high latitudes, which again also obtains; being 1.
Among other influential causes, both of remarkable diversity in the mean annual heat, and of unequal division of heat in the different seasons, are the direction of currents and the accumulation and drifting of ice in high latitudes.
During a period of extreme eccentricity, there would probably be fluctuations of temperature in high latitudes; but nothing like the glacial and interglacial epochs of the Pleistocene could have occurred.
We may further note that at the present day very dry regions, even when these are relatively lofty and in high latitudes, such as the uplands of Siberia, contain no glaciers.
In Mesozoic times, the primeval continental plateau came more and more to the surface, but the land-areas were still much interrupted, so that currents from tropical regions continued to have ready access to high latitudes.
The physical geographer says that the plants grow there simply because they obtain at high levels in low latitudes the favourable climatic conditions underneath which they flourish at low levels in high latitudes.
The effect is slight in the tropics, but great in high latitudes.
In this case one might say that the temperature gave warning, but, as a rule, in high latitudes it has been constant both before and after passing an iceberg.
It has also long been understood that the warm currents produce a comparatively mild climate in high latitudes, and that the cold currents coming from the Polar regions produce a low temperature.
It formerly occurred in the British Isles, but more abundantly in high latitudes; and its remains occur in great numbers on the shores of Iceland, Greenland, and Denmark, as also of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Although the Pliocene deposits formed in high latitudes have to a great extent been swept away by the subsequent glacial wearing, they indicate by their fossils a climatal change in the direction of greater cold.
Thus the snowfall of northern Europe, which serves to maintain the glaciation of that region, and, curiously enough, in some measure its general warmth, depends upon the movement of the Gulf Stream from the tropics to high latitudes.
Certain of the early flowers of high latitudes, indeed, begin to blossom beneath the mantle of finely divided ice.
Her chief object was to make magnetic observations inhigh latitudes south of the Indian Ocean.
These are especially abundant in the colder seas, which doubtless helps to explain the abundance of fish in high latitudes.
As we ascend from the low ground to the higher, or as we travel northwards to high latitudes, the broad-leafed deciduous forests are replaced by coniferous ones.
The valuable cod family is found chiefly in high latitudes.
At noon the line of the horizon was still unbroken; the doctor began to doubt of the existence of a continent in so high latitudes.
The health of the men depends a great deal on the sort of food they get; in high latitudes, the greatest amount of animal food ought to be eaten.
But while vegetation is more generally social in high latitudes, several families of Northern trees are entirely wanting in this quality.
Some of the most beautiful forests inhigh latitudes consist of White Canoe-Birches.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high latitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
