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

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426<br />

beaches, on highlands, 224-25; on<br />

inland mountains, 142-43<br />

bears, 262, 335<br />

beaver, giant, 227, 262, 335; small,<br />

262<br />

"bipolar mirrorism," 327-29<br />

birch, 65<br />

bison, 233, 262; giant, 335<br />

"Brady Interval" (retreat <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin<br />

icecap), 201<br />

bursting stress on crust, 91, 92, 199,<br />

EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST<br />

345> 35* 37 8 > 3 8 4J compared<br />

with crushing point <strong>of</strong> basalt,<br />

350; computed, 361;<br />

cal point now, 381<br />

calamites, 62<br />

Cambrian, 67<br />

near criti-<br />

camel, extinct in North America,<br />

2*27; in Pleistocene Alaska, 307-<br />

8, 335 336<br />

carbon dioxide gas, and Climatic<br />

Optimum, 209; causes general<br />

warming <strong>of</strong> climate, 208; and<br />

recession <strong>of</strong> icecap, 209; result-<br />

ing from volcanism, 207-8, 211<br />

Carboniferous, 62, 66, 68, 72<br />

caribou, 262<br />

"Gary Advance" (<strong>of</strong> Wisconsin ice-<br />

cap), 201, 211, 272<br />

centrifugal effect, i, 2, 158:, 374ff;<br />

calculated, 359-60; distinguished<br />

from Eotvos effect, 357; exist-<br />

ence questioned, 357, 365ff; this<br />

objection answered, 365-78;<br />

mechanism, Ch. XI passim; not<br />

exhausted in local crust defor-<br />

mations, 359; <strong>of</strong> anomalies, 172;<br />

<strong>of</strong> icecaps, 16-19, 1 59~^3, 172,<br />

igSff, 340, 356, 384; <strong>of</strong> triaxial<br />

deformation <strong>of</strong> earth, 184-85;<br />

still operative, 379-86; sufficient<br />

to fracture crust, 362 (and see<br />

fractures); tangential compo-<br />

nent, 341, Table III, 372. See<br />

also anomaly, displacement,<br />

Eotvos effect, icecap, isostasy,<br />

isostatic adjustment, uncompensated<br />

mass<br />

climate, Chs. II, III, VII, VIII, X;<br />

abrupt changes <strong>of</strong>, 15, 237-43;<br />

various explanations <strong>of</strong> these re-<br />

futed, 60-61; these changes evidence<br />

for displacement, 78; and<br />

only explanation for frozen<br />

mammoths, 244; gradual<br />

changes, 77-78; this theory re-<br />

futed, 78; measured <strong>by</strong> radioelement<br />

dating <strong>of</strong> pollen, 29<strong>of</strong>f;<br />

in Siberia, 195, 234; unrelated to<br />

internal heat <strong>of</strong> earth, 118. See<br />

also cores, displacements, extinc-<br />

tions, ionium method, radioelement<br />

dating, volcanism<br />

"Climatic Optimum," 31, 54ff, 196,<br />

201, 209, 255<br />

climatic zones, evidence for dis-<br />

placements, 73; inconstant, 12,<br />

70, and Ch. Ill, passim; mineral<br />

components, 72$<br />

coal beds, 59, 62, 64, 310-11; as<br />

evidence for displacements, 71;<br />

rate <strong>of</strong> formation, 31 <strong>of</strong>f<br />

"Cochrane Advance" (<strong>of</strong> Wisconsin<br />

icecap), 201, 216; local and<br />

minor, 202<br />

coelacanth, 320<br />

conifers, 65<br />

"contemporaneity" <strong>of</strong> events within<br />

the same geological period,<br />

refuted, 38ff, 4 iff, 44, 45, 65-69,<br />

i28ff, 130, 131<br />

continental drift, 14, 26-31, 75-77,<br />

*33> l8 3 *96> 372; refuted, 27,<br />

28-30. See also Ma and Wegener<br />

in Index <strong>of</strong> Names<br />

continental shelf, 141, 142-44<br />

"continental slope," 141

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