Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (37 page)

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Sutton, John,
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Sutton Cycle,
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SWEAT configuration,
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Sweden,
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Sydney,
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Syria,
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Tahiti,
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Talchir Formation,
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Tamil language,
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Tamilnadu,
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Tamils,
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Taylor, Frank Bursley,
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Taylor, T. Griffith,
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Taylor-Wegener hypothesis,
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temperatures, rising,
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Temple of Nature, The
(Erasmus Darwin),
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Tenniel, Sir John,
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Tennyson, Alfred,
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Terra Nova
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Terra Nova Bay,
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terranes,
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Tertiary period,
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Tethys,
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Texas,
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Theobald, William,
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Theory of the Earth
(Hutton),
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theosophy,
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Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, The
(Wegener),
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Thesaurus Geographicus
(Ortelius),
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Thompson, William,
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Kelvin, Lord thorium,
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Tibetan Plateau,
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tides,
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Tien Shan mountains,
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Tierra del Fuego,
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till and tillite,
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Timbuktu,
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Times, The
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Timor,
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Tiruvallur,
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Torsvik, Trond,
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trade winds,
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Trans-Saharan Belt,
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Treatise on Floating Bodies
(Archimedes),
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triangulation,
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Triassic period,
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trilobites,
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Troano Codex,
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Tropic of Cancer,
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tundra,
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Tute, Revd,
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Typus Orbis Terrarum
(Ortelius),
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Ultra Low Velocity Zones (ULVZs),
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ultraviolet light,
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uniformitarianism,
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United Kingdom,
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United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC),
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United States of America,
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geology and opposition to drift theory,
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and Grenvillian Orogeny,
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mountain chains,
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and naming of elements,
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universe

age of,
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centre of,
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Ur,
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Ural mountains,
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uranium,
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Urantia Book, The,
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Ure, river,
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US Coast and Geodetic Survey,
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US Department of Defense,
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US Geological Survey,
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US State Department, Office of the Geographer,
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Ussher, Archbishop James,
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Vale of York,
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Valentine, Jim
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Valluvar, Tiru,
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van der Gracht, Willem Anton Joseph Maria van Waterschoot,
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Variscan mountains,
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Verkhovka Formation,
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Vesuvius, eruption of,
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Vienna,
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Vivekananda Memorial,
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volcanoes

Neoproterozoic,
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at mid-ocean ridges,
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volcanic eruptions,
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Wagner, Richard,
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Walcott, Charles Doolittle,
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Wales,
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Wallace, Alfred Russel,
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Wallace’s line,
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Wallacea,
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Walvis Bay,
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Washington State,
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water vapour,
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Watson, Janet Vida,
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weather forecasts,
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Weber’s line,
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Wegener, Alfred Lothar,
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and continental drift,
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Greenland expeditions and death,
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opposition to his theory,
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and Pangaea,
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Pangaea diagram,
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quoted,
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Wegener, Kurt,
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Wells, H. G.,
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Weltall
theories,
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob,
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West Africa,
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West Gondwana,
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Western Australia,
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Western Europe,
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Wetherby,
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White, David,
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Wilberforce, Bishop Samuel,
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Wilson, Edward Adrian,
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Wilson, John Tuzo,
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Wilson Cycle,
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Windhoek,
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Witwatersrand basin,
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Wollongong,
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Worksop,
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World Wide Web,
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worms,
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Wright, Frederick,
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Wuchiapingian age,
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Yilgarn Craton,
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York,
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Yorkshire,
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Zechstein Sea,
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Zichichi, Antonio,
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zinc,
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zircon,
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Zoological Society of London,
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About the Author
 
 

Ted Nield
holds a doctorate in geology and currently works for the Geology Society of London, where he is editor of their monthly magazine
Geoscientist
. He is Chair of the Association of British Science Writers and Chair of the Outreach Programme of the International Year of Planet Earth – a UN-backed venture. He lives in London.  

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