The tidal and other problems /
Chamberlin, Thomas C.(Thomas Chrowder),1843-1928.
Washington, D.C. : Carnegie institution of Washington,
1909.
At head of title: Contributions to cosmogony and the fundamental problems of geology.
I. The tidal problem: The former rates of the earth's rotation / by J.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 Arthur 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 Julius Stieglitz.
Tides.
Rotating masses of fluid.
Cosmogony.
Geophysics.
Chemical equilibrium.