Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (36 page)

Quartenary period,
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quartzite,
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Queensland,
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radio,
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radio telegraphy,
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radioactive decay,
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radioactivity,
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radiometric dating,
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radium therapy,
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raindrops,
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rainfall,
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Ramachandran, M. G.,
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Ramalingam, G.,
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Ramaswamy, Sumathi,
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Raniganj coalfield,
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Rasmus (Inuit),
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Rasumovsky, Andrei Kirillovich,
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Ray, Charles,
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Read, Herbert H.,
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red beds,
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Rejection of Continental Drift, The
(Oreskes),
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relativity,
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respiration,
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Rhaetic period,
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rifting,
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Ripon,
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RNA,
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Rodinia,
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age of formation,
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and complex life,
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configurations,
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fragmentation of,
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position of,
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Romano, Mike,
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Romantic revolution,
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Romm, James,
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Rosicrucians,
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Ross, John,
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Royal Dublin Society,
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Royal Geographical Society,
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Royal School of Mines,
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Royal Society,
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Russell, Mike,
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Russia,
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Rutherford, Ernest,
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rutherfordium,
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Sabine, Sir Edward,
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Sabine Island,
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St Hilaire, Geoffroy,
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salt,
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samarium,
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San Andreas fault,
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sand dunes,
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sandstone,
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Sanskrit,
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Santiago de Cuba,
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sap, rising of,
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Saucerman, Sophia A.,
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Saussure, Horace Bénédict de,
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Scandinavia,
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scientific method,
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Sclater, Philip Lutley,
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Sclater, William,
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Scotese, Chris,
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Scotia Sea,
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Scotland,
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Scott, Captain Robert Falcon,
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sea levels

falling,
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rising,
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Seaborg, Glenn T.,
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seaborgium,
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seasons,
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seasonality,
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Second World War,
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Secret Doctrine, The
(Blavatsky),
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sediments,
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and age of Earth,
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Archean,
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and environment of Ur,
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eroded minerals in,
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magnetization of,
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oscillation ripples in,
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oxidation of,
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and stromatolite formation,
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seeds, evolution of,
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Seilacher, Adolf,
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Selley, Dick,
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Senegal,
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Senghor, Léopold-Sédar,
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serpentine,
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sex,
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shellfish,
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Sheltering Desert, The
(Martin),
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Sherwood-Britton, Jane,
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sialic rocks,
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Siberia,
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Siberian Traps,
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Sicily,
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silica,
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silicon,
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silicon dioxide,
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Simeulue,
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Singewald, Joseph,
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Skerl, John George Anthony,
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slime,
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Smith, Alan,
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Smith, William,
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snowball events,
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Société Géologique de France,
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sodium,
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solar wind,
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Sollas, Hertha,
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Sollas, William J.,
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Sonora,
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South Africa,
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and Gondwanaland,
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and Grenvillian Orogeny,
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Karoo rocks,
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and Ur,
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South America,
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and Atlantica,
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and Gondwanaland,
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rock equivalents,
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South Atlantic,
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gyre,
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South Australia,
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South China,
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South Pacific,
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South Pole,
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location of,
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South West Africa,
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South-East Asia,
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Southern Hemisphere,
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Summer,
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Southern Ocean,
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Spain,
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Spender, Stephen,
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sponges,
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Sri Lanka (Ceylon),
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and Gondwanaland,
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and tsunami,
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and Ur,
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stabilization ages,
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Steinmann, Gustav,
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Steinmann Trinity,
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steranes,
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Stopes, Marie,
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storm beaches,
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Strait of Gibraltar,
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stratification,
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stratigraphic table,
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stromatolites,
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subatomic particles,
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subduction,
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in Archaen ocean,
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in Indian Ocean,
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zones,
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submarines,
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subsidence,
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Suess, Eduard,
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and continental drift,
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flair and attention to detail,
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and Gondwanaland,
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later years,
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and movements of Earth’s crust,
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and sialic rocks,
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and Vienna water supply,
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Sulawesi,
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sulphur,
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sulphur dioxide,
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Sun,
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distance of Earth from,
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increasing energy output,
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and origin of life,
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weaker,
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Supercontinent Cycle,
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and complex life,
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mechanism for,
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and origins of life,
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super-volcanic eruptions,
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