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The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

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INDEX OF SUBJECTS<br />

Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences (Russian), 8,<br />

244-45<br />

adaptation, 61, 228-32, 250, 322-<br />

23. See also mammoth<br />

adaptive<br />

radiation, 32Qff, 333ff<br />

Alaska, earlier location <strong>of</strong> pole,<br />

2?5 33~ 8<br />

amateurs, 3, 6<br />

ammonites, 63<br />

amphibians, 62, 63. And see individual<br />

species<br />

ancient maps, showing ice-free<br />

Antarctica, 52n.<br />

"Angaraland," 137<br />

annual rings in fossilized woods,<br />

68-69<br />

anomalies, in Antarctica, 161, 163,<br />

172; in Arabian Sea, 174; in<br />

Cyprus, 173; in East Indies, 173;<br />

in Great Rift Valley <strong>of</strong> Africa,<br />

173; in Harz Mountains, 173; in<br />

Hawaiian Islands, 172, 174; in<br />

the Himalayas, 173, 176, 384;<br />

in India, 173-76; in Nero Deep,<br />

173; in Scandinavia, 161, 174; in<br />

U.S.A., 174; negative, 162, 173-<br />

75; positive, 175<br />

Antarctica, coal beds in, 59; ero-<br />

sion in, 59;<br />

evidence for dis-<br />

placement, 54, 364; forested, 60;<br />

icecap in, larger than Wisconsin<br />

icecap, 38 iff, and see<br />

icecap,<br />

displacement, centrifugal effect;<br />

possesses folded mountains, 59;<br />

summer described, i68ff; tem-<br />

perate periods in, 50-55, 58-61,<br />

217, 305; unglaciated, ibid.; see<br />

also Wisconsin glaciation, cores,<br />

ionium method, radioelement<br />

dating, Hudson Bay, displacement;<br />

tropical flora in, 60<br />

anomaly, as epeirogenic uplift,<br />

121-22; centrifugal effects <strong>of</strong>,<br />

179-80, 373-74; from triaxial<br />

deformation, 181-82. See also<br />

uncompensated mass, icecap,<br />

displacement<br />

antelope, 233<br />

anticlines, 88-90<br />

anticyclonic winds, 53, 215<br />

anti-Darwinians, 319<br />

"Appalachia," 141<br />

Archaeocyathidae, 59<br />

Arctic Ocean, only<br />

age, 149<br />

armadillos, 335<br />

ash trees, 65<br />

<strong>of</strong> Mesozoic<br />

asthenosphere, 14, 99-100, 185-92,<br />

353; currents in, alleged cause<br />

<strong>of</strong> mountain building, 87; fluid-<br />

ity, 186; liquid properties, basic<br />

assumption for displacement<br />

hypothesis, 388; not sharply<br />

demarcated from lithosphere,<br />

i5<strong>of</strong>f, i85ff; solidity <strong>of</strong>, refuted,<br />

189; strength estimated from<br />

deep-focus earthquakes, 188-89;<br />

viscosity explains delay in iso-<br />

static adjustment, 179, 184; vis-<br />

cosity increased <strong>by</strong> pressure,<br />

i86ff. See also displacements,<br />

viscosity<br />

asymmetry <strong>of</strong> icecaps, i, i8ff, Fig.<br />

basalts, 133, 172; found on floor <strong>of</strong><br />

Atlantic, 152. And see plateau<br />

basalts

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