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THE OCEAN FLOOR 



Chun, Carl, 3 1 



Climatic variations, determi- 

 nation of, 90 



Cloos, Hans, 67f. 



Coccolithophorides, 89 



Continental drift, Wegener's 

 theory of, 15ff., 61, 63 



Cook, Captain James, 2 



Core-samplers, 32, 116; ex- 

 plosive, 33; piston (vac- 

 uum), 34ff., 43, 125 



Cores: analysis, 32, 76, 79f., 

 87ff., 94ff., 102ff., 116ff.; 

 length, 32ff., 36, 85, 94, 

 105 



Coring technique, 32, 41, 87 



Correns, C, 88, 93, 103n. 



Cousteau, Y., 43 



Daly, Reginald, 147 



Dana, James Dwight, 12 



Deep-sea deposits. See Sedi- 

 ment 



Departement de Recherches 

 Outre Mer, 88 



Diatoms, 49f., 82f., 92, 93 



Dietz, R. S., 149 



Dinesen, A., 108 



Duplaix, S., 88 



Emden Deep, 10 



Erik Raude, 2 



Eriksson, D. B., 140 



Euphotic zone, 93 



Ewing, Maurice, 41, 62, 70, 

 75, 149f. 



Exploration of oceans, 1, 

 30ff.; "Atlantis" (1947- 

 48), 41; British Antarctic 

 Expedition (1839-43), 27; 

 "Calypso" (1952), 43; 

 "Capricorn," 7 If., 106; 

 Captain Cook, 2; Captain 

 Phipps, 27; H.M.S. "Chal- 

 lenger," 30, 43, 72, 151; 

 "Discovery II," 43 "Gala- 

 thea" (1950-52), 43, 46, 

 87, 155, 157ff.; ideal ship 

 for, 44-5; Magellan, 25; 

 "Meteor," 32f., 93, 97; 

 "Michael Sars" (1910), 32, 

 157; Mid-Pacific, 72; neces- 

 sary equipment for, 44-5; 

 "Skagerak" (1946), 36, 

 79; "Tuscarora" (1874), 

 30; "Willibrord Snellius" 

 (1929-30), 33. See also 

 Swedish Deep-Sea Expedi- 

 tion of 1947-48 



Earth: age of, 19; extent of Fairbridge, R. W., 15 



water on, 4 Fish, bottom-living. See Bot- 

 Earthquake belts, 66 tom-living organisms 



Ekman, W., 75n. Fontaine, M., 152 



