950 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Dips, determination of, 9 

 Discoasters, 687, 869 

 Discovery II, 220 

 Dogger Bank, 297 

 Dolomite, 691 

 Dolomitized limestone, 689 

 Dominican Abyssal Plain, 332 

 Donau Glacial strata, 893 

 Drygalski Island, 286 



Earthquakes {see also Seismicity under Mid- 

 Oceanic Ridge and under Trenches), 

 118, 126 £f, 251, 271, 328, 329, 350, 360, 

 389, 412, 422, 498, 502, 743 ff 



East Africa : see Rift Valley of East Africa 



East China Sea, 251 ff 



East Chukchi Sea, 281 



Easter Island, 124 ff, 275, 398 ff, 770 



Eastern England stratigraphic column, 

 893, 902 



Eastern North Atlantic, 318 



Eastern Pacific, 226, 273, 398, 696, 731, 770 



East Indies, 411 



East Pacific Rise, 228, 230, 273 ff, 399 



Eburonian strata, 893 



Echo-sovmders, 233 ff, 415 ff, 751 



Electric discharges, yields of organic com- 

 pounds, 853 ff 



Elevator tectonics, 754 



Ellesmere Island, 304 



Ellice Islands, 374, 378 



Elphidiutn and Elphidiella, 350 



Elsterian strata, 893 



Emperor Seamounts, 275 



Enderby Land, 290 



End moraines, 895 



Energy sources averaged over the Earth, 

 852 



English Channel, 203 ff, 292 ff, 296 ff, 319, 

 622, 625, 643 



Eniwetok Atoll, 97, 208, 211, 377, 380 ff 



Enteromorpha, 602 



Enzymes, 859 



Eolian deposits and dust, 691 ff, 695, 737 



Epicenters, 389 



Equatorial Atlantic Mid-Ocean Canyon, 258 



JEquatorial currents affected by islands and 

 atolls, 385 



Equatorial Divergence, 692, 695 ff, 708, 

 713, 717 



Erban Guyot, 261, 381 ff 



Erosion, 721, 764 ff, 769 



Estuaries, deltas, shelf, slope, 620 

 continental shelf, 638 ff 



Estuaries, deltas, shelf, slope — continued 



definitions, 620 



deltas, 629 ff 



deposition and erosion, 628 ff 



estuarine muds, 624 ff 



marshes, 635 ff 



sources of sediments, 626 ff 

 Ethiopian rift valleys, 395 

 Ethylene glycol solvation technique, 728, 



737 

 Eua, 368 



Euphotic layer, 708 



Evolution theory supported by islands and 

 atolls, 385 



Faroe Bank, 282, 304, 768 



"Faros" (coral knolls), 377 



Farsan Bank, 302 



Faunal zones time-equivalence, 835 ff 



Fayal, 164 



Feldspar, 669, 695 ff, 698 



Ferromanganese nodules, 670 



Fiji, 368 



Filter-feeding animals, 655 



Filters, passive and electronic, 53 



Finisterre, Cape, 302 



Fish, 459 



Fish skeletal debris, 685, 705, 873, 880 ff 



Florida, 205, 286 ff, 291, 295 ff, 330, 562 ff, 



569 ff 

 Flow of granular solids dispersed within 



fluids, 510 

 Flow of heat through ocean floor : see Heat 



flow through ocean floor 

 Flysch, 299 



Foraminifera, 335, 347, 350, 376, 383, 422, 

 566 ff, 659, 677, 686, 708, 711, 753 ff, 

 833 ff, 871 ff, 879 ff, 902 



calcareous benthonic, 917 



coiling directions of planktonic species, 

 833 



frequency-to -weight ratio, 833 



oozes, 880 



pelagic, 906 

 Fossils, 866 ff, 900 

 Fram Abyssal Plain, 327 

 Fram. R.V., 402 ff 

 Francolite, 682 ff 

 Franz Joseph Land, 402 

 Eraser Delta, 494 

 Friesland, 297, 620, 625 ff, 644 

 Funafuti Atoll, 374, 377, 571 



Galapagos, 368, 385, 797 



