"Arctic Zone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pleistocene periods geographical changes occurred which rendered a true Glacial period possible with high excentricity. When the high excentricity passed away the Glacial epoch also passed away in the temperate zone; but it persists in the arctic zone, where, during the Miocene, there were mild climates, and this is due to the persistence of the changed geographical conditions. The present arctic climate is itself a comparatively new and abnormal state of things, due to ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... upon me it will be the Arctic zone in the conservatory," said Miss Grace Plumer, as she rose from the piano. (Mrs. Newt had written Abel she was fourteen! She ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... seems like the constant wooing of the sea that wins the offering from this wealth of purity, instead of the voluntary act of this giant of the Arctic zone. ...
— Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist • E. L. Lomax |
