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THIS is a very successful attempt to introduce something like order into the complicated phenomena of oceanic currents. The author sketches first the two well-known main systems, viz. (1) the great west-current which forms a belt of nearly 50° of latitude on both sides of the equator, and to which the earth's rotation, combined with the inertia of the ocean, is assigned as cause; (2) the great thermal circulation from the poles towards the equator, with its compensating current in the opposite direction; both are, according to the author, produced by the difference in density of cold and warm water, and he refutes, with great knowledge and sagacity, the opinions of previous writers, of Maury among others, who seek the cause in differences in the amount of evaporation and rain, the prevailing winds, and the amount of saline matter in the sea.
Terrestrial Physics.—Ueber die Lehre von den Meeres-strömungen.
By Dr. Adolf Mühry. (Göttingen, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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L., B. Terrestrial Physics—Ueber die Lehre von den Meeres-strömungen. Nature 1, 330 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001330b0
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