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

Antarctica, asthenosphere, burst-
ing stress, climate, earthquakes,
extinctions, fractures, ice ages,
icecaps, isostasy, isostatic adjustment,
lowering of temperature,
meridian of maximum thrust,
mountain building and origins,
poles,
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 429
triaxial deformation, vis-
cosity, volcanism
distribution of species, i35ff, 325-
29, 339; Ch. Ill, passim
domes and basins, no; related to
displacement, no, 120, 184
downward projections of crust,
124-25, 151-52, 190-92
Drayson hypothesis, 43, and see
Drayson in Index of Names
Drosophila, 319
earth, formed as a solid, n; cool-
ing, 66-67 (and see cooling);
heating, n, 11619 (and see
heat); magnetic field, 33, 308;
molten origin, discredited, 82-
84, 112, 117, 182; triaxial deformation
of, 180-84. $ee a ^so
centrifugal effect, crust, dis-
placements, equatorial bulge,
isostasy, poles
earthquakes, 90103, 109, 113, 118,
Figs. II-VI, Ch. XI; deep-focus,
and strength of asthenosphere,
188; function, 384; and impend-
ing crust displacement, 382-86;
in Assam, 383-84; in India, 383;
pushed Himalayas up nearly 200
feet farther from isostatic adjustment,
384; this phenomenon un-
explainable save in terms of displacement,
384; major, from
world-wide stress systems, 382;
from icecap thrust, 382; increas-
ing in frequency and violence,
382-85; minor, of local origin,
382; produce heat by friction,
118; and triaxiality of earth,
189. See also crack in earth's
crust, displacements, fractures,
geosynclines
eccentricity of Antarctic icecap,
i8ff, Fig. I, 198; contrasted with
that of Wisconsin icecap, ig8ff
elephants, 229-33, 33 6 > 337
elevations of land, drastic changes
in, 38, 142, 219-21; adduced to
explain climatic change, 60-61;
this theory refuted, 61; related
to displacements, 120-23, 285.
See also epeirogenic uplifts,
mountain building, beaches,
land bridges, displacements
elk, American, 262; Irish, 262;
killed and preserved by same
sort of conditions as held for
mammoth and mastodon, 262
England, separated from Euro-
pean continent within last 7,000
years, 218-19
Eocene, 64, 69, 309, 314
Eotvos effect, 357, 371-75
epeirogenic uplifts, i2off, 128, 153
epicontinental seas, 85ff, 140, 148-
49
equatorial bulge, accounting for
stretching and compression of
crust, goff, 345-5 1, Figs. XIII,
XIV, XV; lying beneath crust,
346; origin, 370; and rotational
stability, 17, 20, 25, 366. See also
fractures, wedge effect
equipotential surface, 370-72, 374,
377; sea level, 372-73. See also
geoid
erosion, 48, 106, 152-53; and former
continents, 141; and iso-
static adjustment, 162, 177;
mountain building, 80-82; and
peneplains, 177-78; and sedi-
mentary rocks, 129