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Title:

The tidal and other problems, by T.C. Chamberlin, F.R. Moulton, C.S. Slichter, W.D. MacMillan, Arthur C. Lunn, and Julius Stieglitz.

Publisher:

Carnegie institution of Washington,

Copyright Date:

1909

Description:

2 p.l., iii-iv, 3-264 p. illus., fold. chart, diagrs. 26 cm.

Subject:

Chemical equilibrium.
Cosmogony.
Geophysics.
Rotating masses of fluid.
Tides.
Earth--Rotation.

Other Authors:

Chamberlin, Thomas C. (Thomas Chrowder), 1843-1928.
Lunn, Arthur C. (Arthur Constant), b. 1877.
MacMillan, W. D. (William Duncan), b. 1871.
Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952.
Slichter, Charles Sumner, 1864-1946.
Stieglitz, Julius, 1867-1937,

Notes:

At head of title: Contributions to cosmogony and the fundamental problems of geology.

Contents:

I. The tidal problem: The former rates of the earth's rotation, by T.C. Chamberlin. The rotation-period of a heterogeneous spheroid, by C.S. Slichter. On the loss of energy by friction of the tides, by W.D. MacMillan. On certain relations among the possible changes in the motions of mutually attracting spheres when disturbed by tidal interactions, by F.R. Moulton. Notes on the possibility of fission of a contracting rotating fluid mass, by F.R. Moulton. The bearing of molecular activity on spontaneous fission in gaseous spheroids, by T.C. Chamberlin.--II. Geophysical theory under the planetesimal hypothesis, by A.C. Lunn.--III. Relations of equilibrium between the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere and the calcium sulphate, calcium carbonate, and calcium bicarbonate of water solutions in contact with it, by J. Stieglitz.

Series:

Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 107

OCLC:

(OCoLC)2328616

LCCN:

09009962

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)