Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (32 page)

Cage, Nicholas,
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calcium carbonate,
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calcium sulphate,
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Calcutta,
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Caledonian mountains,
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California,
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Cambrian period,
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Canada,
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cap carbonates,
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Cape Comorin,
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Cape Corrientes,
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Cape Geological Commission,
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Cape mountains,
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Cape of Good Hope,
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Cape Town,
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carbon,
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isotopes,
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sequestration,
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carbon dioxide,
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carbonates,
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Carboniferous period,
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Caribbean,
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Carmarthen,
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Carroll, Lewis,
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Catholic Church,
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Celebes,
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Central America,
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Central Provinces,
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Ceylon,
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Sri Lanka chalk,
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Challenger
disaster,
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Chamberlin, Rollin T.,
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Chamonix,
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Charnock, Job,
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charnockite,
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Charnwood Forest,
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Chelogenic Cycle,
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chert,
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China,
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Churchward, Colonel James,
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civilizations,
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climate modelling,
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climatic zones,
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coal forests,
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coal formation,
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coals,
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colour photography,
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Columbia,
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Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels),
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Comores,
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computer modelling,
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Congo basin,
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conifers,
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conjugate sets,
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos, Emperor,
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Constantinople,
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continental drift,
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development of theory and

opposition,
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measurements of,
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mechanism for,
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Ortelius and,
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before Pangaea,
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continents

rainfall over,
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size and volume of,
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thickness of crust,
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Cooper, Tony,
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Cope, John,
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coral reefs,
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corals, fossil,
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Coriolis, Gustave-Gaspard de,
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Coriolis effect,
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Coulomb, Alexis and Emma,
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cratonization,
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Creation, date of,
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‘creation science’,
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Croft-on-Tees,
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Croll, James,
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Croll–Milankovich cycles,
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cross-bedding,
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crystal gardens,
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Curie, Pierre,
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Curie point,
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cyanobacteria,
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cyclicity,
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da Landa, Diego,
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Dallow Moor,
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Daly, Reginald,
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Dalziel, Ian,
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Danish Geological Survey,
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Darling Belt,
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D’Arpa, Filippo,
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Darwin, Charles,
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and fossil record,
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Darwin, Erasmus,
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Das Antlitz der Erde
(Suess),
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day and night,
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Debenham, Frank,
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Deccan Traps,
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deduction,
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deep time,
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Depleted Mantle Model Age (
^T
_DM
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Devonian period,
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Dewey, John,
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diatoms,
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Dickens, Charles,
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dinosaurs, xiii,
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Dixon, Henry Horatio,
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DNA,
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Dnipropetrovsk,
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Dobson, David,
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Dodinga,
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dolomite,
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Donnelly, Ignatius,
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Doushantuo Formation,
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dragonflies,
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Drake Passage,
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Dravidian peoples and languages,
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du Toit, Alexander,
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Dürer, Albrecht,
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Dwyka Formation,
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dykes,
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dyke swarms,
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Earll, Tony,
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Earth

age of,
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axial tilt,
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axis,
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climate,
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contraction of,
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cooling of,
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core,
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core-mantle boundary,
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cyclicity,
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‘dethronement’ of,
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distance from Sun,
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elliptical orbit,
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formation of,
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frozen,
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heat distribution,
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impact of life on climate,
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rotation,
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‘rusting’ of,
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shield areas,
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size,
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temperature,
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‘theories of’,
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Earth’s atmosphere,
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balance with hydrosphere,
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composition of,
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oxygen content,
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Earth’s crust

composition of,
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levels of,
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mantle convection,
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movements of,
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neodymium concentration,
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radiogenic heat and sub-crustal melting,
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thickness of,
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Earth’s magnetic field,
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reversals of,
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earthquakes,
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East Africa,
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East African Rift,
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East Antarctica,
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and SWEAT configuration,
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and Pannotia,
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and Ur,
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Easter Island,
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Easter Rising (1916),
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Eastern Ghats,
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echinoderms,
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ecliptic,
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Ediacara Hills,
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Ediacaran period,
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see also
Garden of Ediacara Ediacarans,
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Egypt,
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einsteinium,
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Elgar, Sir Edward,
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embryology,
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Emergence of Animals, The
(McMenamin),
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Energy Balance Models,
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Engels, Friedrich,
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Enggano,
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Eniwetok Atoll,
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Enlightenment,
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Eoarchean eon,
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Epicurus,
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Equator,
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glaciation at,
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and position of Rodinia,
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Erinnerungen
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erosion,
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Euler’s Theorem,
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Eurasia,
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Eurasian Plate,
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Europe,
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collision with Africa,
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fossil assemblages,
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and measurements of drift,
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mountain chains,
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Evans, Edward,
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evaporites,
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Everest, Colonel George,
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evolution, theory of,
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extroversion,
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