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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
The Mather and Einstein Forewords to the First Edition
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
chapter 1 - GEOMAGNETISM, CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND POLAR WANDERING
1. DO THE POLES MOVE?
2. THE GEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE
3. BRIEF SURVEY OF THE EARTH’S STRUCTURE
4. CONTINENTAL DRIFT: THE THEORY OF ALFRED WEGENER
5. CONTINENTAL DRIFT: THE NEW THEORY
6. THE HYPOTHESIS ACCORDING TO DIETZ
7. SEA-FLOOR SPREADING
8. HEEZEN’S DIFFICULTIES
9. HIS SOLUTION
10. FURTHER OBJECTIONS TO SEA-FLOOR SPREADING
11. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION: POLAR SHIFT
12. THE SPEED OF POLAR SHIFT
13. THE MECHANISM FOR POLAR SHIFT
14. IS THE POLE MOVING NOW?
chapter 2 - THE FAILURE TO EXPLAIN THE ICE AGES
1. THE FAILURE OF THE OLDER THEORIES
2. THE MISPLACED ICE CAPS
3. WORLDWIDE PHASES OF COLD WEATHER
4. THE NEW EVIDENCE OF RADIOCARBON DATING
5. CONCLUSION
chapter 3 - THE FAILURE TO EXPLAIN CLIMATIC CHANGE
1. AGES OF BLOOM IN ANTARCTICA
2. WARM AGES IN THE NORTH
3. UNIVERSAL TEMPERATE CLIMATES—A FALLACY
4. THE EDDINGTON-PAULY SUGGESTION
5. THE CONTRIBUTION OF GEORGE W. BAIN
6. THE CONTRIBUTION OF T. Y. H. MA
7. ON THE RATE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
chapter 4 - EVIDENCE FOR THE NORTH POLE IN HUDSON BAY
1. REMARKABLE FEATURES OF THE LAST NORTH AMERICAN ICE CAP
2. THE WARM ARCTIC OF THE ICE AGE
3. SOVIET EVIDENCE OF THE WARM ARCTIC
4. EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN
5. EVIDENCE FROM THE COAST OF MEXICO
6. EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA
7. EVIDENCE FROM TASMANIA
8. CONFIRMATION FROM ANTARCTICA
9. THE EVIDENCE OF AN ANCIENT MAP
10. CONFIRMATION FROM SOUTH AMERICA
11. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE WISCONSIN ICE CAP WITH THE GLACIATIONS IN EUROPE ...
chapter 5 - THE VIOLENT LIFE OF THE LAST GREAT ICE SHEET
1. THE ACCELERATION OF EROSION AND ITS CAUSE
2. THE CAUSE OF OSCILLATIONS OF THE ICE SHEET AND THE CAUSE OF THE CLIMATIC ...
chapter 6 - THE SUDDEN MELTING OF THE ICE SHEET
1. THE TEMPO OF DEGLACIATION
2. THE LAST MAJOR ADVANCE OF THE ICE SHEET
3. THE RETREAT OF THE ICE
chapter 7 - EVIDENCE FOR THE NORTH POLE IN THE GREENLAND SEA
Part I. THE RADIOCARBON EVIDENCE
Part II. THE EVIDENCE FROM DEEP-SEA CORES
chapter 8 - POLAR CHANGE IN THE REMOTER PAST
chapter 9 - THE SHAPING OF EARTH’S SURFACE FEATURES
Part I. - MOUNTAINS AND GREAT RIFTS
Part II. VOLCANISM AND OTHER QUESTIONS
chapter 10 - THE EXTINCTION OF THE MAMMOTHS AND THE MASTODONS
1. THE EXTINCTION OF THE MAMMOTHS
2. THE MAMMOTH’S ADAPTATION TO COLD
3. THE PRESENT CLIMATE OF SIBERIA
4. A SUDDEN CHANGE OF CLIMATE?
5. THE BERESOVKA MAMMOTH
6. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE REPORT
7. STORM!
chapter 11 - THE EVIDENCE OF VIOLENT EXTINCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA
1. THE LOST SEA OF THE ANDES
2. THE PLEISTOCENE GRAVEYARDS OF SOUTH AMERICA
3. “FRESHNESS” OF FOSSIL REMAINS
4. THEORIES AND CONSIDERATIONS
chapter 12 - SOME PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTION
1. THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION
2. THE PROBLEM OF TIME
3. CLIMATE AND EVOLUTION
4. THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES
5. THE PERIODS OF REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN LIFE FORMS
6. THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES
7. THE GAPS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
8. SUMMARY
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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