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

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continents, ancient (Brooks the-<br />

ory), 137; building, related to<br />

volcanic islands and sedimenta-<br />

tion, 115; elevation and subsidence<br />

explained, 153-57 see a ^so<br />

(<br />

sea level, elevation, displace-<br />

ment); invaded <strong>by</strong> epicontinental<br />

seas, 85, 140; this phenomenon<br />

quasi-periodic, 85; origin <strong>of</strong>,<br />

hitherto unexplained, 12, iggff;<br />

permanence alleged, 134-35,<br />

298; refuted, 135!!, 139-48, 150^,<br />

157, 298-300; shape correspond-<br />

ence, 28; strength <strong>of</strong> lithosphere<br />

at ocean bottoms, refuting<br />

"floating<br />

submergence,<br />

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 427<br />

continents" idea, 28;<br />

as evidence for<br />

displacement <strong>of</strong> crust, 156-57;<br />

sunken, 137-45, 29gff, 326. See<br />

also land bridges<br />

cooling <strong>of</strong> earth, 82, no; adduced<br />

to explain isostatic anomalies,<br />

182; to explain mountain build-<br />

ing, 79-80; this theory refuted,<br />

87-88; to explain universal tem-<br />

perate climate, 66-67;<br />

tn * s t ^ie"<br />

ory refuted, 67-69, and Chs. Ill,<br />

VII, IX passirrt<br />

coral, 62, 73^; evidence for<br />

placement, 75-77 (see also<br />

dis-<br />

Ma<br />

in Index <strong>of</strong> Names); seasonal<br />

variation in cells, 74; indicators<br />

<strong>of</strong> latitude, 73-74<br />

cores, 50-51, 54, 55-56, 271, 277,<br />

282, 284-87, 290-303, 305, 309.<br />

See also ionium method, radio-<br />

element dating<br />

crack in earth's crust, world-wide<br />

(Ewing canyons), 81, 109, no,<br />

113, 385; consistent with force<br />

pulling Americas southward,<br />

385; continuous earthquake activity<br />

along, 109, 385; related to<br />

displacement, past or impend-<br />

ing, no, 385; and volcanism,<br />

i*3<br />

craters, 126<br />

Cretaceous, 63, 68, 72, 75, 131, 309<br />

crinoids, camariate, 334<br />

crust, compression on, 100-2, 153,<br />

1 75-7 6 383-84; crushing<br />

strength (compressive strength),<br />

358; elasticity, 92, 101; folding,<br />

80-90; hydrostatic balance, 99-<br />

100; rapid warping, 216, 22226;<br />

resistance to fracture slight, 351;<br />

sinking under weight <strong>of</strong> sediments,<br />

refuted, 81-82 (see geosynclines);<br />

stretching, 9199,<br />

153; structure, i5<strong>of</strong>f; tensile<br />

strength, 100, 124, 175-76, 186,<br />

200, 357-58, 391; thickness, 14,<br />

123-24; variation in thickness,<br />

124-25, 151-52. See also burst-<br />

ing stress, displacement, frac-<br />

tures, "mountain roots," nega-<br />

tive geography<br />

crustaceans, 73<br />

cycle <strong>of</strong> climatic change, 21,000<br />

years long, 309<br />

Dawn Redwood, 320<br />

deer, 262, 335<br />

"denudation," area <strong>of</strong>, 163<br />

"deposition," area <strong>of</strong>, 163<br />

deserts, in all geological periods,<br />

68; mainly in horse latitudes, 72<br />

Devonian, 62, 66, 68-69, 75> 7<br />

diastrophisms, diastrophic disturbances,<br />

131, 312. See also dis-<br />

placements, mountain building<br />

diatoms, fresh-water, in mid-Atlantic,<br />

299; evidence for land<br />

mass in that area, 299ff<br />

dinosaurs, 335; not degenerate,<br />

336; extinction attributed to<br />

displacements, 336<br />

displacements <strong>of</strong> crust, i, 2, 13-15,<br />

2<strong>of</strong>f,

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