The Hebrides. J. M. Boyd

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Название The Hebrides
Автор произведения J. M. Boyd
Жанр Биология
Серия Collins New Naturalist Library
Издательство Биология
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780007406630



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      Fig. 1 Map of the Hebrides

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      This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2019

       First published 1990

       Copyright © J. M. and I. L. Boyd, 1990

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       Editors

      Sarah A. Corbet

      Max Walters, ScD, VMH

      Professor Richard West, ScD, FRS

      David Streeter, FIBiol

       Photographic Editor

      Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP

      TO WINIFRED

      wife, mother and grandmother

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       2.Climate and Hydrography

       Climate

       The Weather System

       Ecological Effects

       Humidity and Temperature

       Soil Climate

       Rainfall and Sunshine

       Wind

       Climate in the Past

       Hydrography

       3.Soils

       Glacial Till with Brown Forest Soils

       Morainic Drift with Peat and Gleys

       Outwash Fans and Raised Beaches

       Colluvium and Shallow Drifts with Podzols

       Aeolian