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     recycling of ocean floor in,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
     seafloor spreading in,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
     of southern continents,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
     
see also
plate tectonics
cores, drill,
see
drill cores
Cretaceous period,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
bm1.1
n
Croll, James,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
Cuvier, Baron Georges,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
bm1.1
n
Darlington, Philip,
5.1
,
5.2
,
bm1.1
n
     crocodile attack on,
5.1
,
bm1.1
n
Darwin, Charles,
2.1
,
5.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
bm1.1
n
deep-sea trenches,
6.1
,
6.2
Denmark,
1.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
bm1.1
n
diet,
9.1
,
bm1.1
n
–8
n
dinosaurs,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
     in bridge abutment,
1.1
,
bm1.1
n
     extinction of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
n
,
bm1.2
n
     
prosauropod
     
of color vision
     
Native American
     
see also
genes, genetic factors
Dominy, Nathaniel,
8.1
,
bm1.1
n
drill cores,
3.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
     ice,
9.1
,
bm1.1
n
     from seafloors,
6.1
,
8.1
dust clouds,
3.1
,
3.2
Earth
     age of,
prl.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
10.1
,
bm1.1
n
     ancient,
3.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
     asteroid collision with,
4.1
,
4.2
     geological changes of,
3.1
,
3.2
     habitable zone location of,
3.1
,
3.2
     
heat balance of
     orbital changes of,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
     
orbit of
     rotations of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
     slowing rotations of,
4.1
,
4.2
     tilted rotation axis of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
     wobble of,
9.1
,
9.2
Earth, water on,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
     atmospheric carbon removed by,
3.1
,
8.1
     origins of,
3.1
,
bm1.1
n
–7
n
     relative abundance of,
3.1
,
3.2
     
see also
oceans
     
see also
moon
earthquakes,
6.1
,
6.2
     E =
mc
2
equation of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
electromagnetism,
2.1
,
3.1
electrons,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1
elements,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
7.1
     heavier,
2.1
,
2.2
     in human body,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
8.1
     periodic table of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
     in stellar fuel,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
     volatile,
4.1
,
4.2
     
see also
atoms
end-Cretaceous event,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
n
,
bm1.2
n
energy,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1
,
6.1
     
dark
     mass and,
2.1
,
2.2
England,
7.1
,
7.2
,
9.1
Europe,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
evolution,
10.1
,
10.2
,
bm1.1
n
     natural selection in,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
bm1.1
n
–8
n
     
prediction of
Ewing, Maurice “Doc”,
6.1
,
6.2
extinctions,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
bm1.1
n
–3
n
,
bm1.2
n
     end-Cretaceous event,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
n
,
bm1.2
n
family histories,
2.1
,
4.1
family trees,
2.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
“Field Kit to Characterize Physical, Chemical, and Spatial Aspects of Potential Primate Foods” (Lucas et al.),
8.1
,
bm1.1
n
fish,
2.1
,
8.1
     
bony
     
gill bones of
     land adaptions developed by,
3.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
     
pineal gland of
Fleming, Williamina,
2.1
,
2.2
flies
     mutant,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
     size-control genes of,
5.1
,
bm1.1
n
fossil record,
1.1
,
1.2
     global catastrophes in,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
     shelled animals in,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
     in
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
n
     
whales in
fossils,
3.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
     amphibian,
8.1
,
8.2
     Arctic redwood trees,
8.1
,
8.2
     
coral reefs
     dinosaur,
see
dinosaurs
     earliest,
4.1
,
5.1
,
bm1.1
n
     in Greenland,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
7.1
     hominid,
10.1
,
bm1.1
n
     hunting for,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
     mammal,
1.1
,
1.2
,
7.1
,
10.1
     plant,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
     seashell,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1
     similar, continental distribution of,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
8.1
fusion reactions,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
galaxies,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
Galileo Galilei,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
bm1.1
n
Garrod, Dorothy,
9.1
,
9.2
,
bm1.1
n
gas clouds,
2.1
,
2.2
genes, genetic factors,
5.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
     
diet and
     
proteins in
     size-control,
5.1
,
bm1.1
n
     
see also
DNA
genetic mutations,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
     circadian clocks and,
4.1
,
4.2
,
bm1.1
n
–8
n
     of flies,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
genomes,
5.1
,
5.2
,
bm1.1
n
–8
n
geological maps,
7.1
,
7.2
geological time,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
bm1.1
n
–6
n
,
bm1.2
n
geology,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
bm1.1
n
–2
n
geopoetry,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
Glossopteris
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
Gould, Stephen Jay,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
n
gradualism,
1.1
,
7.1
gravity,
2.1
,
2.2
,
7.1
     in acceleration of falling bodies,
5.1
,
5.2

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