The possibility of this would depend entirely upon the form of the lands and the consequent course of ocean currents.
The other is the entirely different idea that climatic changes arise from solar conditions which cause a redistribution of the earth's atmospheric pressure and hence produce changes in winds, ocean currents, and especially storms.
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.
They have, however, generally assumed that the change was due to alterations in the depth of the sea or in the run of ocean currents.
The system of ocean currents, though it exhibits much complication in detail, is in the main and primarily dependent on the action of the constant air streams known as the trade winds.
We now have to consider the last important influence of ocean currents--that which they directly exercise on the development of organic life.
But seeds that may be carried by ocean currents have a much greater influence on the distribution of plants, such as the coconut palm, already mentioned among the food plants, and now common throughout the tropical world.
Its fruits will float in the sea for months without injury and it is thought to have been distributed all over the tropical world by ocean currents.
Guppy, from whom much of the above data are taken and who has experimented for years on the buoyancy and germinating power of sea-borne seeds, reckons about two hundred species that may have spread by ocean currents.
They are occasionally taken in ocean currents, chiefly about Japan and Madeira.
Further, wherever we get the magnetic field, there we get the lines of force which are as real as air or ocean currents, and are caused, as Maxwell indicated (Art.
Its islands, most of them insignificant in themselves, are almost entirely cut off from it by ocean currents.
The colonization of America by Europe, instead of by China, is a consequence of the direction of ocean currents, as is also the fact that America has now the fairest prospect of influencing the civilization of China and Japan.
Croll's writings, since my theory is entirely based on the facts and principles so clearly set forth in his admirable papers on "Ocean Currents in relation to the Distribution of Heat over the Globe.
In his remarkable series of papers on "Ocean Currents," the late Dr.
The water below their influence is comparatively calm, being affected only by ocean currents.
What effect have the tides and ocean currents in the distribution of sediment?
Thus we see how the organic forces may give rise to extensive accumulations of inorganic matter, closely resembling the finest silt or mud which is carried down to the sea by rivers, and distributed far and wide by ocean currents.
Sometimes anchored mines break away from their moorings and are carried around by ocean currents or are blown about by the winds.
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