Light Science for Leisure Hours Second Series Familiar Essays On Scientific S
Light Science for Leisure Hours Second Series Familiar Essays On Scientific S
Richard a Richard Anthony Proctor
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Carpenter s recent researches that the tem perature at every depth beneath 100 fathoms is found to be uniform, even down to a bottom of 1, 900 fathoms ; as had, indeed, been previously ascertained by Captain Spratt, although his observations, made with thermo- 232 LIGHT SCIENCE FOR LEISURE HOURS. meters not protected against pressure, set this uniform temperature too high. In the western basin of the Mediterranean, as shown by the Porcupine observations of 1870, the uniform temperature is 54 or... 55 degrees ; being, in fact, the winter temperature of the entire contents of the basin, from the surface downwards ; and being also, it would appear, the mean temperature of the crust of the earth in that region. We learn, then, two things viz. , first, that where extensive submarine motions are impossible, a constant submarine tempera ture may be expected to prevail in the same latitudes ; and, secondly, that in the latitude of the Mediterranean the submarine temperature is about 54 or 55 degrees Fahr.
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