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

43 EARTH S SHIFTING CRUST
Everest, Mount, increased height
since 1950, and displacement,
384
evolution, 12, and Ch. X passim;
causes, 3i5ff; and climate, 32off;
and displacements, 322; "ex-
plosive/' see Virenz; and glacial
periods, 321; and macromuta-
tions, 319; and mutation, 316-
18; mystical explanations, 318
19; "quantum," see Virenz;
selection pressure, 318; unex-
plained, 315; vast stretches of
time required without drastic
climatic change being adduced,
i 3 6 20
extinctions, 197, 207, 227; Ch.
VIII passim; and impending dis-
placement, 386; hitherto unexplained,
228, 315. See also mammoth,
mastodons
"Farmdale Advance" (of Wiscon-
sin icecap), 200, 273, 307
"Farmdale-Iowan Interstadial,"
200
ferns, 62, 63
floating of bodies from gases produced
in decomposition, 237;
not observed in very cold waters,
237
foraminifera, and sea mounts, 148;
and displacements, 287, 295-96;
in Arctic, 287
fossilization, a rare accident, 68;
not limited to warm-climate
creatures, 68
fossil record, gaps in, 337-39; ex-
plained, 129, 338
foundering of continents, 1395
foxes, 262
fractures of the crust, 81, 91-99,
log- 1^ 3 8 5 Figs. II-VI; and
displacements, 91-99, 104-10,
177, 204*1, 209, 364, 379, 391;
major, 93, 935, 1135; minor, 93,
115; more ancient systems obliterated
by those from most recent
displacements, 108; and mountain
building, 91-99; older the-
ories of origin refuted, 106-7;
and wedge effect, 345ff, 351, 363.
See also centrifugal effect, crust,
displacements, equatorial bulge,
magma, mountain building,
mountains
friction, subcrustal, 118; alleged
brake on displacements, 353;
this objection answered, 353
frozen foods, 238-40; related to
mammoth, 24off
fusion of nuclei, 390
genes, 316, 318, 319
"geoid," 158, 179, 182, 183, 375,
377; represented by sea level,
373
geosynclines, 87-90, 100, 115, 127;
supposed origins, 89-90. See also
centrifugal effect, displacements,
mountain building
glaciations, European, not con-
temporaneous with North Amer-
ican, 280-83, 292; Ch. IX passim
glaciers, Ch. II passim, 67, 70, 193;
not universally receding, 1 64-65,
167-68. See icecap
Glossopteris, 60
"Gondwanaland," 137
gradualism, 313-14 (see also Lyell
in Index of Names); a habit of
mind (Einstein quotation), 364
gravitational contraction, insufficient
to account for earth's heat,
116
gravitational surface, 372-73, 377
gravity, 37off; accounts for shape
of earth, 158, 370. See also isos-
tasy, isostatic adjustment