Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (33 page)

Falkland Islands,
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Ferdinand II, Emperor,
1

Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies,
1

Ferdinandea,
1

Ferrel Cell,
1

Feynman, Richard,
1

First World War (Great War),
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3

fish,
1

Fisher, Revd Osmond,
1

Fitzroy, Captain,
1

Flinders Range,
1

Florida,
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,
2

flying machines,
1

fool’s gold,
1

Fortey, Richard,
1

fossil magnetism,
see
palaeomagnetism fossil record,
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,
2

fossils,
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Antarctic,
1

assemblages,
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corals,
1

earliest,
1

Ediacaran,
1

and Gondwanaland,
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,
2

Jurassic,
1

and Precambrian base,
1

fountains,
1

fractionation,
1

France,
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4

Frankfurt Geological Society,
1

Fraser Belt,
1

Freemasons,
1

Freud, Sigmund,
1

gabbros,
1

gamma rays,
1

Gangetic Plain,
1

Garden of Ediacara,
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,
3
,
4

Garden of Ediacara
(McMenamin),
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2

gas,
1
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2
,
3

Geikie, Sir Archibald,
1

General Circulation Models (GCMs),
1

Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding,
1

Geological Society of London,
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Geological Society of South Africa,
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Geological Survey of Canada,
1

geology,
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‘armchair’,
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,
2

geophysics,
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3

George, Rose,
1

Germania expedition,
1

Germany,
1

Gilbert, Grove Karl,
1

glaciation

earliest,
1

low-latitude deposits,
1

Marinoan,
1
,
2

mirror-image,
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2

glaciers,
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glass,
1

global conveyor,
1

Global Geophysical Events,
1
,
2

Glomar Challenger
,
1

Glossopteris
,
1
,
2
,
3

gold,
1

Gololo (Halmahera),
1

Gonds,
1

Gondwana Assemblage,
1

Gondwana ice age,
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,
2

Gondwana Junction,
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Gondwanaland,
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,
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,
6

fragmentation of,
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,
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and
Glossopteris
forests,
1

location of South Pole in,
1

modern fragments and rock equivalents,
1

and Pannotia,
1

and Rodinia,
1
,
2

Suess and,
1
,
2

gorgonopsians,
1

Gotland,
1

GPS,
1

Graham, Admiral Sir Robert George,
1

Graham Bank volcano,
1
,
2

Graham Land,
1

granitic rocks,
1

gravity,
1

gravitational attraction,
1

local variations in,
1

Graz,
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,
2

Great Australian Bight,
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,
2

Great War,
see
First World War Greene, Mott,
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greenhouse effect,
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3

greenhouse gases,
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,
4

Greenland,
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,
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movement of,
1

Wegener’s expeditions,
1
,
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,
3

greenstone belts,
1

Gregory, John W.,
1

Grenville Orogeny,
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,
2

Grisly Folk, The
(Wells),
1

gypsum,
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2
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3

gyres,
1
,
2

Hacker, Bradley,
1

Hadean eon,
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3

Hadley Cell,
1

Haeckel, Ernst,
1
,
2

hafnium,
1
,
2

Hahn, Helena Petrovna,
see
Blavatsky, Madame

Haidinger, Wilhelm von,
1

Hall, Alan,
1
,
2

Halley, Edmond,
1

Halley’s comet,
1
,
2

Hardy, Thomas,
1

harmonic systems,
1

Harrison, Mark,
1

Haughton, Samuel,
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2

Hawaii,
1
,
2

Hell Kettles,
1

Hercynian mountains,
1

Hiero II, King,
1

High Skelding,
1

Himalayas,
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3
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4

Hinduism,
1

Hipparchos of Rhodes,
1

HMS
Beagle
,
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,
3

HMS
Rattlesnake
,
1

Hoffman, Paul,
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Holmes, Arthur,
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,
2

Homer,
1

Homo neanderthalensis
,
1

Hooker, Sir Joseph,
1

Horn of Africa,
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,
2

Hosmer, Craig,
1

Housman, A. E.,
1

Huguenots,
1
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,
3

human beings

‘dethronement’ of,
1
,
2

embryology,
1

human evolution,
1

and theosophy,
1

hurricanes,
1

Hutton, James,
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4

Huxley, Julian,
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Huxley, Thomas Henry,
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quoted,
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Hyderabad,
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2

hydrogen,
1
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,
4

hydrological cycle,
1

hydrosphere,
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,
2
,
3

hypsographic curve,
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