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

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varves, 68, 211, 309; imply seasonal
changes, 68
Viking settlements, 164; overwhelmed
by growing ice sheets,
165
Virenz, Virenzperiod, 329-31;
coincide with periods of drastic
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geological change, 33 iff; follow
creation of empty niches by ex-
tinctions, 337
viscosity of asthenosphere, 14, 86,
179, 184, i86ff; decreased by
heat, 187; increased by pressure,
i86ff. See also asthenosphere,
displacements
"vital force" in species, a piece of
scholastic logic, 333; discredited,
334~37
volcanic dust, relationship
mate, 2O5ff, 211
to cli-
volcanic glass shards, found in At-
lantic cores, 294, 296
volcanic islands, location ex-
plained, 115
volcanic zones, distribution unex-
plained, 111-12; related to fracture
systems, 113-14
volcanism, 12, 42-43, 97, 304, 312;
and carbon dioxide gas, 207-8;
and Ewing canyons, 113; and
extinctions, 207, 268-70, 304-5;
and fracture systems, 113; and
immense increase of precipita-
tion, 253, 264; and impending
displacement, 386;
and moun-
tains, 80, 111-15; and storms,
268-71; and toxic gases, 269;
and Wisconsin glaciation, 196,
200, 204-10; and world-wide
lowering of temperature, 205cause
of readvance
6, 252, 270;
of icecap, 205-6, 252; not merely
local phenomenon, 112-13; the-
ories of origin, 112-14; unre-
lated to alleged molten origin
of earth, 112. See also climate,
crack in earth's crust, displacements,
extinctions, magma, Pari-
cutfn
walnut, 65
warm-climate life in polar zones,
f2, 25, 58-65, and Ch. Ill passim
warming of climate, world-wide,
refuted, 164-65. See also climate
and Chs. II, HI passim
water, volume approximately con-
stant over geological time, 156-
57; as evidence for crust dis-
placement, 156-57
water lilies, in Greenland, 65; in
Grinnell Land, 64, 65; in bergen, 64
Spitz-
wedge effect, 345-51; and equato-
rial bulge, Figs. XIV, XV, 348ff,
36off; and fractures, 345; multi-
plies centrifugal thrust by 500,
349
whale, 337
Wisconsin glaciation, 45, 48, 54,
Ch. VII, 257, 266, 268, 277, 278,
283ff, 287ff, 289, 302, 307, 309,
352, 379 38 2; oscillations of, 48,
ig6ff, 281. See also volcanism
wobble, in earth's rotation, 16-17,
32. See also Blanchard and
Gold in Index of Names
wolves, 245, 335
wool, 229-30
world-wide system of submarine
rifts, 81, 109, no, 113, 385
"youth" of a species. See adaptive
radiation
zones. See climatic zones