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INDEX
211
- Poles, oscillations of, 122–8
- —, position of, at different periods, 109
- Poplar, 92
- Potamochœrus, 62
- Potonié, H., 102, 149
- —, R., 101
- Pratt, 23–4, 37, 173
- Precession, effect of, 200–2
- Precordilleras, 3, 43
- Pressures on continental margin, 175–7
- Prince’s Island, 59
- Probability, principles of, 56
- Pulkowa observatory, 119
- Quaternary, Pleistocene and Recent, 2, 6–7, 74–80, 82, 88, 101, 109, 205
— glaciation, 55, 109–13 - Quitzow, 134
- Raclot, 32
Radiolarites, Alpine, 20 - Radium, 13–4, 141
- Raised beaches, former shore lines, 22
- Raleigh, Lord, see Strutt.
- Ramann, E., 102
- Reade, T. M., 164
- Recent, see Quaternary
- Reconstructed maps of the world, 6–7
- Recumbent folds, see Sheet folding
- “Red Beds,” 107
- Red Sea, 64, 167–8, 171
- Regressions, 124–7
- Reibisch, P., 94–5, 124
- Reptiles (Europe-North America), 79
- Reyer, E., 14
- Rhine Valley, 193
- Richthofen, F., 183
- Rift valleys, 166–72
- Rio de Janeiro, 46
- Rio Grande do Sul, 46
- Robeson Channel, 58
- Rome observatory, 118
- Rücker, A. W., 32
- Rudzki, M. P., 9, 13–14, 22, 113, 121–2, 175, 186
- Ruhr district, coal, 80
- Russisi, River, 167
- Rustenberg district, 46
- Sabine, 115
Sago-palms, 92 - St. Gotthard tunnel, 134
- St. Lawrence River, 60, 177
- St. Thomas, 59
- Sal, 36
- Salt, 91, 105
- Salter, J. W., 80
- Sands, deep-sea, 61
- Sandstones as evidence of climate, 91
- San Francisco, earthquake fault, 186
- San Juan Province, 43
- Santa Catharina Province, 46
- — — System, 46–7
- Saõ Paulo Province, 46
- Sapper, K., 69
- Scandinavia, elevation of, 22–3, 121
- Schardt, H., 12
- Scharff, R. F., 82
- Schiaparelli, G. V., 123
- Schiötz, 173
- Schmidt, A., 33
- Schott, G., 61, 144, 178
- Schuchert, C., 75
- Schwarz, E. H. L., 9, 200
- Schwarzschild, 9
- Schweydar, W., 24, 37, 128–9, 131, 137, 198–203, 205
- Scoresby Sound, 42, 57
- Scotland, 57, 82
- Scottish Highlands, 54
- Sea-cow, 83
- Sealing-wax, 129, 131, 133, 141, 165
- Seals, 78
- Section through a sial block, 153
- — — the earth, 148
- Sediments, oceanic, 139–40
- —, shallow water origin of, 20–1
- —, thickness of, 148
- See, 9
- Seismic waves, velocity of, 33–5, 128
- Semper, M., 82, 94, 105, 124
- Sequoia, 92
- Serra de Tingua, 46
- — do Gericino, 45–6
- — do Mar, 45
- — Geral, 47
- Seychelles, 59, 141
- Shallow water connections, 19
- — — origin of sedimentary rocks, 20–1
- Shansi, coal, 104
- Shantung, coal, 104
- Sheet folding, 12
- Shelf-bridges, 19
- Shelves, 2, 177
- Shire, River, 167
- Shore-lines, former, 22
- Shrinkage, 11
- Sial, 36–41, 59, 133, 136–7, 141, 146–56, 160–1, 165
- — block, section through, 153
- Sialsphere, 146–56
- Siboga Bank, 68
- Sierras of Buenos Aires, 43
- Sigillaria, 102
- Silurian, 52, 54, 58, 74–8
- Sima, 36–41, 131–7, 153–4, 160–1, 165
- Simplon tunnel, 134
- Simroth, H., 87–8, 94–5
- Sino-Australian continent, 83
- Skottsberg, C., 84
- Sliding of marginal chains, 184
- Sloe trees, 92
- Smith Sound, 58
- Smoothness of ocean floor, 38–41
- Snails, 81
- Snow line in Tasmania and New Zealand, 111
- Society Islands, 179
- Soft solids, 132
- Sokolow, N. A., 119
- Solidity, 129–34
- Solomon Islands, 143
- Somaliland peninsula, 59, 64
- Sörgel, W., 26, 30, 88
- Soundings for cable, 39
- South America, tectonic map, 50
- South Antillean curve, 71
- South Atlantic, congruency of coasts, 1
- South Georgia, 72
- South Orkneys, 72
- South Polar Expedition (Drygalski), 61
- South Sandwich Islands, 71
- Spain, 52, 81
- Sparganophilus, 79
- Specific gravity of sial and sima, 37–9
- Spitaler, 128
- Spitsbergen, 42, 57, 92, 104
- Steinmann, G., 112, 149
- Streams in sima, 141–5
- Stremme, H., 102
- Strike-lines in Brazil and Africa, 48–9
- Stromer, 82–4
- Strutt (Lord Raleigh), 13, 113
- Stübel, 153
- Submarine bank, 61
- — effusions of lava, 139
- — folded mountains, 39–41
- Submerged valleys, supposed, 177–8
- Submergence to deep sea floor, 16, 25
- Sudan, 48
- Suess, E., 11, 36, 49, 51–4, 62, 66, 146, 155
- Sula Besi, 69
