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SUBJECT INDEX 



Calcium carbonate 



compensation depth, 867 

 distribution, 591, 688 ff 

 Calcium citrate tetrahydrate, 708 

 Calcimn oxalate dihydrate, 708 

 California, 146 ff, 230, 244, 286, 291 ff, 304, 

 313, 326, 333, 337 ff, 342, 393, 399, 

 404, 489, 501, 583 ff, 588 ff, 593, 601, 

 620, 638, 645, 728, 763, 900 

 Callao Bay, 585 



Calypso Expedition, 303 

 Cambridge University (England), Depart- 

 ment of Geodesy and Geophysics, 20, 

 24, 40, 87 



Campeche, 286 ff, 330 



Canada Abyssal Plain, 327 



Canada Pacific coast, 737 



Canary Islands, 247, 314, 320, 839 ff 



Canning, 297 ff 



Cap Breton (see also Brittany), 319 



Gape Johnson R.V., 416, 424 



Capes : see their names 



Cape Verde Islands, 164, 314, 320, 696 



Capricorn Expedition, 90, 97 



Capricorn Seamount, 427 



Carbonate deposition, 613 ff, 672, 686 ff, 

 711, 909 



Carbon radio-isotope, 14c, 824 ff, 916 



Cariaco Trench, 335, 584 ff, 588, 592, 595, 

 605, 770 



Caribbean Sea, 105 ff, 250, 282, 313, 331 ff, 

 411 ff, 759, 880, 904, 911 ff, 917 



Carniel Submarine Canyon, 487, 501 



Carnarvon, 297 ff 



Carnegie Institution and non-magnetic ship, 

 176 ff, 728 



Carolina ridge, 294 



Carpathian Poland, 897 



Caryn Peak, 166, 208 



Cascadia deep-sea channel, 257, 324, 346 ff, 

 500 



Cayman Ridge, 332 



Cayman Trench, 429 



Ceara Abyssal Plain, 318 



Celestobarite, 676, 680 



Celtic Sea, 286, 293, 296 ff, 642 



Central American Pacific coast trench, 251 



Cephalopods, 705 



Ceylon, 490, 493 



Chain R.V., 477 ff 



Challenger Deep, 416 ff 



Challenger ILM.^. (1872), 369, 769, 821, 880 



Challenger H.M.S. (1950), 88, 416 



Champagne, 297 



Chert, 692 



Chesapeake Bay, 57, 295, 620, 627 

 Chile, 159, 399, 404, 413, 728 

 Chilean earthquakes, 118, 431 ff 

 Chillesford Clay, 893 

 China Sea, 647 



Chinese invention of the compass, 175 

 Chlorite, 700 ff, 729 ff, 737 

 Chlorophyll, 596 

 Chondritic meteorites, 674 

 Chromium, 666, 680 

 Chukchi Sea, 646, 649 

 Churning action of benthic animals, 721 

 Clarion Fracture Zone, 422 

 Clay-mineral distributions in the Pacific 

 Ocean, 728 

 analytical techniques, 728 

 concentration gradients, 736 

 pioneer investigations, 728 

 sedimentation rates, 728 

 summary of chapter, 739 ff 

 surface distribution, 730 ff, 737 

 vertical distribution, 738 ff 

 zeolitic, 873 

 Clay minerals (see also Red clay), 592, 611, 



729 ff 

 Clays, density-porosity relations, 804 

 Clipperton Fracture Zone, 262 

 Cobalt, 666 

 Coccolithophorids, 686 ff, 708, 712, 715, 



868 ff, 878 

 Cod, Cape, 469 

 Colombia, 331 



Colombia Abyssal Plain, 760 

 Compass, history of the, 175 

 Compass Island, U.S.S., 141 ff 

 Compressional and shear waves : see under 

 Seismic refraction and reflection and 

 under Physical properties of marine 

 sediments 

 Congo River and submarine features, 237 ff, 



249, 256, 490, 689, 752, 761 

 Connate waters, 604 



Continental shelf and slope (continental 

 margin), 58, 157, 203 ff, 235, 237 ff, 281 

 block-faulted type, 302 ff 

 conclusion, 306 



constructional classic theory, 290 ff 

 constructional type, 293 ff 

 downfaulted type, 302 ff 

 erosional theory, 290 ff 

 fissured type, 304 ff 

 microtopography, 467 ff 

 sediment distribution, 638 ff, 648 ff, 656 



