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THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND OCEANS
- Sulaiman Mountains, 64
- Sumatra, 64, 69, 187
- Sunda Islands, 67–8, 89, 93
- Surfaces of discontinuity, 129
- Svakopmund, 46
- Swamp-cypress, 92
- Swaziland System, 45
- Szechwan, coal, 104
- Tabular icebergs, 31
Tallow, 133 - Tams, E., 33–5, 186
- Tanganyika, Lake, 167–9
- Tapering by continents southwards, 172
- Tapir, 93
- Tasmania, 89
- —, Pleistocene snow-line, 111
- Taylor, F. B., 9, 94, 190
- Taxodium, 92
- Tear-fault, see lateral displacement.
- Tectonic map of South America, 50
- — — of West Africa, 48
- Temperature in interior of earth, 12–4, 134–6
- Termier, P., 54
- Terminal moraines, 55, 110
- Terrestrial Magnetism, 32–3
- Tertiary, including Palæocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene, 2–3, 13, 18, 51–2, 60, 62–3, 66, 70–2, 74–82, 92–4, 109–10, 113, 205
- Thar Desert, 62
- Thickness of continental blocks, 36–8
- Thompson, Sir W., see Kelvin, Lord.
- Thrusts, see Overthrusts.
- Tibet, 63
- Tidal friction, 200
- Tides in the earth, 128
- Tienshan System, 63
- Tierra del Fuego, 4, 71, 84, 89
- Tierra del Fuego-West Antarctica bridge, 74
- Tillite, 47
- Tilmann, N., 54
- Time, lapse of geological, 112–14
- Times of transit of earthquake waves, 33–5
- Timor, 68
- Togoland, 96
- Toit, A. L. du, 47
- Tonga Deep, 145
- — ridge, 143
- Trabert, 28–9
- Transatlantic Altaides, 53
- — longitude determinations, 114–18
- Transgressions of the sea, 124–7, 203
- Transit of earthquake waves, times of, 33–5
- Transvaal, 46
- Tree-ferns, 92, 101
- Trees, limit of, 90, 100
- Trend lines in Brazil and Africa, 48–9
- Trias, 62, 74–9, 82, 109–10
- Triaxial ellipsoid, 202
- Trigonia, 78
- Triulzi, 171
- Tundra-flora, 90, 100
- Ubisch, L., 20, 78, 80
Uhlig, V., 75, 167 - United States, coal, 80, 105–6
- Upper Carboniferous, map of, 6–7
- Upper Silesia, coal, 80, 105
- Uruguay, 46
- Valdivia Expedition, 61
Validity of theory, probability of, 56 - Vellakonda Mountains, 62
- Victoria Land, 70
- — Nyanza, Lake, 168
- Viscosity, coefficient of, 128–9
- — of the earth, 120–37
- Vogt, J. H. L., 134
- Volcanoes, 59, 153–6
- Vulcanicity of festoons, 155–6
- Vulcano, 139
- Vuuren, L. van, 68
- Waagen, L., 98, 125
Wagner, H., 28–9 - Walcott, C. D., 80
- Wallace, A. R., 85, 87–8
- Walnut, 92
- Walther, J., 94, 151
- Wanner, B., 69
- Warming, 82
- Washington observatory, 118
- Water-lilies, 92
- Wax, 133
- West Antarctica, 70, 179, 188
- Westward drift of continents, 191–3, 199–202
- Wetter, 68
- Wettstein, H., 8, 200
- Whitman Cross, 38
- Wiechert, 129
- Wilckens, O., 66, 70, 77
- Wilde, H., 32–3
- Willis, B., 21, 26, 75, 176
- Windhausen, A., 51
- Wittich, E., 185
- Wolft, H., 13
- Woodworth, J. B., 47
- Yap Deep, 144
Yew tree, 92 - Yokoyama, M., 94
- Zawadowski Island, 72
Zones of Earth’s interior, 129, 148 - Zschokke, 86
- Zwarte Berge, 43
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