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

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pressure, mild, 318;
strong (i.e., major climatic
change), 321
Sequoia, 65
sharks, 320
shrinking of crust, 82-84, 87, no;
refuted, 83-84. See also cooling
"sial" and "sima," 152
Sierra Nevadas, accounted for by
"gridiron" fracture systems, io6
Silurian, 75, 129
simplicity of a theory, 388
sloth, giant, 227
snow, increased fall in Antarctica,
164-65; rapid accumulation in
Antarctica, i67ff; explained, 169
solids, behavior of, at extremely
high pressures, 189; relationship
to deep-focus earthquakes, 189
species, adaptation to different climates,
61, 322-23; "degenera-
tion" concept refuted, 334-37;
drastic climatic change and,
322-24; extinctions, 197, 207,
227; history compared with individual
growth and aging,
333-37> this notion likened to
medieval scholastic logic, 333;
"maturity," see intrazonal adap-
tation; mutations and, 316-18;
new, not produced, 3i6f; tropical,
survival refutes theory of
simultaneous world-wide glacia-
tions, 328; "youth," see adap-
tive radiation. See also adapta-
tion, climate, distribution,
extinction, ice
ages, land
bridges, mammoth, mastodon,
volcanism
sphenodon, 320
Spitzbergen, formerly warm, 62-65
stabilizing effect of equatorial
bulge, 17, 20, 25
vstorms, 236, 254-55, 266-71
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 437
strandlines, 224ff
stratigraphy handicapped by ero-
sion, 129
subcrustal currents, 87-88; lack of
evidence for, 88
sunspot cycles, 165
surface of mass, 372-73, 377
swamp-cypress, 65
"Swedish Time Scale," 211. See
varves
"sweepstakes" process in distribution
of
species, 326
synclines, 90* See also geosynclines
Taxodium, 65
"Tazewell Advance" (of Wiscon-
sin icecap), 200-1, 218
"Tazewell Maximum," 211
Teleosaurus, 63
tempo, of evolution, Ch. X; of
geological change, 12. See also
displacements, icecaps, mountain
building
"Tethys Sea," 137, 140
thermal energy arriving at surface,
66
tigers, 230;
their thick fur not an
adaptation to cold, 232
tree ferns, in Antarctica, 60
Triassic, 63, 130; coal deposits, 71
triaxial deformation of earth, 180-
84; amount of equatorial oval-
ness, 181; evidence for displacement,
183-84; irreconcilable
with isostasy theory, 183
trilobites, 67
"Two Creeks Interstadial," 201
Tyrannosaurus rex, 320
uncompensated mass, 341,
See also anomaly
373-77.
uniformitarianism, 48, 304, and see
Lyell in Index of Names
universal temperate climates, re-
futed, 65-70