Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (35 page)

Naacal language,
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Nallavadu,
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Namibia,
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Nan Shan mountains,
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Nance, R. Damian,
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NASA,
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Natal,
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natural selection,
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Näturliche Schöpfungsgeschichte
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Neander Valley,
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Nedunceliyan, R.,
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Nena,
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neodymium,
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Neoproterozoic eon,
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Netz, Reviel,
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New England,
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New Stone Age,
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New York,
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New York Times
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New Zealand,
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nickel,
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nitrates,
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nitrogen,
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Niven, William,
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Noah’s ark,
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North Africa,
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North America,
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and AUSWUS configuration,
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fossil assemblages,
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and Rodinia,
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and SWEAT configuration,
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North Atlantic,
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gyre,
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North Pole,
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North Sea,
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Northern Hemisphere,
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Summer,
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Norway,
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Novopangaea,
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nuclear fusion,
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Nuna,
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nunataks,
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Occam, William of,
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ocean floor,
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age of parts,
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Archean,
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composition of,
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and continental drift,
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magnetization of,
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and origins of life,
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and pre-Pangaean supercontinents,
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thickness of crust,
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oceanic convection cells,
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oceans

evolution of complex life in,
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salt content,
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volume of,
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oil,
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exploration,
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Olcott, Alison,
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Olcott, Henry Steel,
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Old Testament,
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Oldham, Thomas,
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Oldhamia
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olivine,
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On the Origin of Continents and Oceans
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On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
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ophiolites,
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suites,
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Ordovician period,
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Oreskes, Naomi,
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Orinoco, river,
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Orissa,
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orogeny,
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Ortelius, Abraham,
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Outline of History
(Wells),
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oxygen,
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Paccard, Michel-Gabriel,
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Pacific Ocean,
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ancestral,
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early-warning systems,
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shrinkage of,
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subduction zones,
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Pacific rim,
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Padangbai,
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Palace of Westminster,
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palaeographic atlases,
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palaeomagnetism,
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Palaeozoic period,
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Paleomap Project,
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Palk Bay,
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Panama,
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Pangaea,
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climate,
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continental drift before,
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formation and fragmentation,
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mountain formation,
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and pre-Pangaean supercontinents,
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reconstructions of,
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time of fragmentation,
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the word,
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Pangea Ultima,
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Pannotia,
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Panthalassa,
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Paris,
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parrots,
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Part Played by Labour in the Transition
from Ape to Man, The
(Engels),
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Patriarchate of Jerusalem,
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Peltaspermum
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Pennines,
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peridotite,
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Periodic Table,
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Permian period,
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Persia,
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Perth,
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Phanerozoic eon,
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Philadelphia Academy of Sciences,
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Philip, Arne,
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phosphorus,
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photosynthesis,
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physics,
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Physics of the Earth’s Crust, The
(Fisher),
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pillow lavas,
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plankton,
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plants,
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plate tectonics,
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and origins of life,
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pre-Pangaean,
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Plato,
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pleochroic haloes,
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plutonium,
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Poland,
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Polar Cell,
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polar winters,
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Pollard, David,
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Pomp and Circumstance March No.
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(Elgar),
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Pongola basin,
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Port Sudan,
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Pratt, Archdeacon John,
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Precambrian period,
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precession,
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preconstructions,
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predation,
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Pretoria,
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prevailing winds,
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Prévert, Jacques,
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Prévost, Louis Constant,
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Priestley, Raymond,
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Principles of Geology
(Lyell),
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Principles of Physical Geography
(Holmes),
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proteins,
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protocontinents,
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pyrite,
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