SUBJECT INDEX 



639 



Biosphere, 97 



Biostratigraphy, 153 



Biotal provinces, 177-179 



Biotas, 157, 158, 163, 170-173 



Biotic heterogeneity, 507 



Bipolarity, 163, 324, 325 



Biscay, Bay of, 599, 604-609, 614, 



620 

 Black Sea, 487, 555 

 Blennius pliolis, 251 

 Body form 



modification of, 235 

 Bolus, 615-620 

 Bonaire, 16 

 Borate, 561 

 Borderlands of continents, 5, 490 



drift, 3, 48, 49, 190, 491 



margin, 15, 16, 489 



rise, 



shelf, 43, 615, 619 



slope, 617 



terrace, 475, 487-491 

 Boreal province, 184 

 Boron, 596 



Botanical Congress, 240 

 Bottles, see Water bottles 

 Bottom-living organisms, 382, 395- 



396 

 Bottom water, 314, 358, 365, 606 

 Boundary currents, see Currents, 



boundary 

 Brachiopoda, 328 

 Brazil, 464, 469, 471 

 Britannia expedition, 65 

 Bromine, 583 

 Bryzoa, 328 



Bubbles, 108, 412-415, 479 

 Budding, 465 

 Buffers, 550, 559 

 Burdwood Bank, 16 

 Burgess Shale, 91 , 92 ; see also Shale 

 Bursa, 466 



Calanus, 531, 532 



Calafius finmarchicus, 206, 207, 



216-218, 223, 261, 262 

 Calanus minor, 205, 206, 220 

 Calcite, 482, 559, 560 

 Calcium, 362, 586 

 Calcium carbonate, 131, 133, 136, 

 175, 348, 349, 354-356, 358, 

 365, 482, 552, 554, 559-561, 

 573 

 deposits, see Sediments; Ooze, 



calcareous 

 solubility, 266 

 Calcium oxide, 558 

 Calcium phosphate, 566 

 Caledonian structure, 48 

 California, 20, 43, 469, 471, 481, 

 490 

 current, 435 

 Gulf of, 11, 346, 596 

 Cambrian, 85, 91, 99, 153, 192 

 lower (early), 91, 92, 177-179 

 middle, 91, 177, 328 

 pre-, 91, 92, 99, 176, 193, 367, 

 387 

 Cameroons, 48 

 Canada, 24, 129, 441 

 Canary Islands, 471 

 Canyons, 42, 490, 615 

 Cape Hatteras, 462, 471 

 Cape Verde Islands, 471 

 Carbohydrates, 502 

 Carbon, 555, 558 



Carbon-14, 302, 303, 306-308, 312, 

 313, 354, 372, 373, 375, 384, 

 520, 522, 528, 540 

 time scale, 137 

 Carbon dioxide, 101, 358, 420, 421, 

 481, 500, 502, 550, 561, 594 

 atmospheric, 302, 316, 411, 419 

 industrial effect on, 308, 318, 

 319 

 Carbonic acid dissociation, 266, 419 

 Carboniferous, 193 

 post-, 194 



