by Ted Nield
and Atlantica, 1
and Gondwanaland, 1, 2, 3, 4
rock equivalents, 1, 2
South Atlantic, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
gyre, 1
South Australia, 1
South China, 1
South Pacific, 1
South Pole, 1, 2, 3, 4
location of, 1, 2
South West Africa, 1
South-East Asia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Southern Hemisphere, 1, 2, 3, 4
Summer, 1, 2
Southern Ocean, 1
Spain, 1
Spender, Stephen, 1
sponges, 1, 2
Sri Lanka (Ceylon), 1, 2, 3, 4
and Gondwanaland, 1, 2
and tsunami, 1
and Ur, 1
stabilization ages, 1
Steinmann, Gustav, 1
Steinmann Trinity, 1
steranes, 1
Stopes, Marie, 1
storm beaches, 1
Strait of Gibraltar, 1
stratification, 1
stratigraphic table, 1
stromatolites, 1, 2
subatomic particles, 1
subduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
in Archaen ocean, 1
in Indian Ocean, 1
zones, 1, 2, 3
submarines, 1, 2
subsidence, 1, 2, 3
Suess, Eduard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and continental drift, 1
flair and attention to detail, 1
and Gondwanaland, 1, 2, 3, 4
later years, 1, 2
and movements of Earth’s crust, 1, 2, 3, 4
and sialic rocks, 1
and Vienna water supply, 1, 2
Sulawesi, 1
sulphur, 1, 2
sulphur dioxide, 1
Sun, 1, 2
distance of Earth from, 1, 2
increasing energy output, 1, 2, 3
and origin of life, 1, 2
weaker, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Supercontinent Cycle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and complex life, 1, 2, 3
mechanism for, 1
and origins of life, 1
super-volcanic eruptions, 1
Sutton, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sutton Cycle, 1
SWEAT configuration, 1
Sweden, 1
Sydney, 1
Syria, 1
Tahiti, 1
Talchir Formation, 1, 2, 3
Tamil language, 1
Tamilnadu, 1, 2
Tamils, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Taylor, Frank Bursley, 1
Taylor, T. Griffith, 1
Taylor-Wegener hypothesis, 1
temperatures, rising, 1
Temple of Nature, The (Erasmus Darwin), 1
Tenniel, Sir John, 1
Tennyson, Alfred, 1
Terra Nova, 1
Terra Nova Bay, 1
terranes, 1
Tertiary period, 1
Tethys, 1, 2
Texas, 1
Theobald, William, 1
Theory of the Earth (Hutton), 1
theosophy, 1
Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, The (Wegener), 1
Thesaurus Geographicus (Ortelius), 1
Thompson, William, see Kelvin, Lord thorium, 1
Tibetan Plateau, 1, 2, 3
tides, 1, 2, 3
Tien Shan mountains, 1
Tierra del Fuego, 1, 2, 3
till and tillite, 1
Timbuktu, 1
Times, The, 1
Timor, 1
Tiruvallur, 1
Torsvik, Trond, 1
trade winds, 1
Trans-Saharan Belt, 1
Treatise on Floating Bodies (Archimedes), 1
triangulation, 1, 2
Triassic period, 1
trilobites, 1
Troano Codex, 1
Tropic of Cancer, 1
tundra, 1, 2
Tute, Revd, 1
Typus Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius), 1, 2
Ultra Low Velocity Zones (ULVZs), 1
ultraviolet light, 1
uniformitarianism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
United Kingdom, 1
United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), 1
United States of America, 1, 2, 3, 4
geology and opposition to drift theory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
and Grenvillian Orogeny, 1
mountain chains, 1, 2, 3, 4
and naming of elements, 1
universe
age of, 1, 2
centre of, 1
Ur, 1, 2, 3
Ural mountains, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
uranium, 1, 2
Urantia Book, The, 1, 2, 3
Ure, river, 1
US Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1
US Department of Defense, 1
US Geological Survey, 1, 2
US State Department, Office of the Geographer, 1
Ussher, Archbishop James, 1, 2, 3
Vale of York, 1
Valentine, Jim 1
Valluvar, Tiru, 1, 2
van der Gracht, Willem Anton Joseph Maria van Waterschoot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Variscan mountains, 1
Verkhovka Formation, 1
Vesuvius, eruption of, 1
Vienna, 1, 2, 3
Vivekananda Memorial, 1, 2, 3, 4
volcanoes
Neoproterozoic, 1
at mid-ocean ridges, 1
volcanic eruptions, 1, 2, 3
Wagner, Richard, 1
Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 1
Wales, 1
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1, 2, 3
Wallace’s line, 1, 2
Wallacea, 1
Walvis Bay, 1
Washington State, 1
water vapour, 1
Watson, Janet Vida, 1, 2, 3
weather forecasts, 1
Weber’s line, 1
Wegener, Alfred Lothar, 1, 2, 3, 4
and continental drift, 1, 2
Greenland expeditions and death, 1, 2, 3
opposition to his theory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and Pangaea, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pangaea diagram, 1
quoted, 1
Wegener, Kurt, 1
Wells, H. G., 1, 2
Weltall theories, 1, 2
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1
West Africa, 1, 2
West Gondwana, 1, 2
Western Australia, 1, 2
Western Europe, 1
Wetherby, 1
White, David, 1
Wilberforce, Bishop Samuel, 1
Wilson, Edward Adrian, 1
Wilson, John Tuzo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilson Cycle, 1, 2, 3
Windhoek, 1
Witwatersrand basin, 1
Wollongong, 1
Worksop, 1
World Wide Web, 1
worms, 1
Wright, Frederick, 1
Wuchiapingian age, 1
Yilgarn Craton, 1
York, 1
Yorkshire, 1, 2, 3
Zechstein Sea, 1, 2, 3, 4
Zichichi, Antonio, 1
zinc, 1
zircon, 1, 2, 3, 4
Zoological Society of London, 1, 2
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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