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THIS book gives a popular account of the theory of Adhémar and Croll as to the causes of glacial periods in geological history.
The Cause of an Ice Age.
By Sir Robert Ball, Astronomer-Royal for Ireland. Pp. 180. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., 1891.)
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DARWIN, G. The Astronomical Theory of the Glacial Period. Nature 45, 289–291 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045289a0
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