INDEX 



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Sea- ice — continued 



banded structure, i. 183 



Bay of Whales, i. 190 



Blacksand Beach, i. 178, 179 



break-up of, i. 187, 188, 190, 191 



build structure, i. 42 



C. Bame, i. 108 



effect on littoral fauna, i. 192 

 on temperature, i. 192 



Ferrar Glacier, i. 89 



formed in calm water, i. 181, 183 



importance of, i. 192 



McMurdo Sound, i. 179, 182, 183, 184, 187, 190 



mechanical disruption of, i. 190, 191, 192 



Ross Sea, i. 139, 144, 187 



salinity of, ii. 16 



stratification of, i. 184 



thaw effect, i. 187 



thickness of old, i. 185 



transporting power of, i. 192 

 Sea-spiders, Dry Valley, i. 95 

 Sea- water, specific heat of, i. 18 



temperature, i. 188 

 Seal breathing-holes, i. 139, 190 



Islands, i. 301 

 Sedimentary formation, i. 77 



rocks, i. 247, 316 



Beardmore Glacier, i. 150 

 Sefstrom Glacier, i. 269, 276 

 Senkungsfeld of Ross Sea, i. 4, 221, 301 

 Senonian, Graham Land, i. 314 



South America, i. 314 

 Sentinel Peak, i. 157 

 Seracs, Drygalski Ice Barrier, i. 50 

 Sericite, ii. 154, 162, 165, 179, 185, 208, 232 

 Serpentine, ii. 99, 102 

 Serpulae, Backdoor Bay, i. 273 



Backstairs Passage, i. 231, 266, 267 



Glacier Tongue, i. 105, 231, 273 



Ross Island, i. 231 

 Serra Geral, Gondwana coal-measures, i. 253 

 Seter of Scandinavia and Greenland, i. 207 

 Seymour Island, i. 313, 317, 318 



beds, i. 314 

 Shackleton, Sir Ernest, i. 3, 6, 19, 22, 39, 40, 116, 117, 



118, 127, 129, 130, 131, 201, 224, 241, 315 ; ii. 93 

 Shackleton Expedition, 1908, i. 127, 248, 287, 300, 315 ; 

 see also British Antarctic Expedition 



Inlet, i. 22, 117, 125, 130, 289 

 Shackleton's Farthest South, i. 116, 122, 292, 293 

 Shale, kerosene, i. 311 

 Shallow Lake, ii. 9 



ice-structures, ii. 10 

 section, ii. 9 

 Shaw, W. N., Dr., i. 14 

 Shelf-ice, i. 171, 173 

 Shell beds, marine, C. Bame, i. 110 

 Shetland Island, temperature, i. 22 

 Shingle, Dunlop Island, i. 83 

 Shiraze, Lieut., i. 4, 171, 298, 309 

 Shore drift, i. 98 



Siberia, i. 14 



Sierra de Cordoba, Gondwana coal-measures, i 253 



Nevada of California, i. 304 

 " Sieve " structure, ii. 165, 183 

 Silicification, ii. 189, 191 

 Sill, Finger Mountain, i. 255 



Minna Bluff, i. 117 

 Sillimanite, ii. 142, 145 

 Sills, i. 6, 64, 81, 112, 245, 250, 254, 298 

 Simpson, G. C, Dr., i. 31 

 Siphonemu areaceum, i. 241 



incrustans, i. 241 

 Skiiger Rak, i. 145 



Skeats. E. W., Professor, i. 235, 242, 243, 315 ; ii. 189 

 Skelton Inlet, i. 86, 117, 141, 142 

 Skua gulls, i. 274, 275 

 Skuary (see also C. Evans), i. 107 



cones, i. 107, 228, 258, 259 



description of, i. 107, 108, 227 



eskers, i. 107, 228 

 Slate, i. 8 ; ii. 208 



calcareous, Dry Valley, i. 233 



C. Adare, i. 310 



Cloudmaker, i. 243 

 Smithsonian Physical Tables, i. 17, 18 

 Snow accumulation on Ross Barrier, i. 135, 143 



amount equal to rainfall, i. 143 

 Snow-apron, i. 131 

 Snow-bergs, i. 171, 173, 1S6 ; ii. 18 



structure of, i. 171-74 

 Snow cornice, i. 71 



Blacksand Beach, i. 178, 179 

 Butter Point, i. 98 

 Drygalski Ice Barrier, i. 51, 52 

 Glacier Tongue, i. 103 



crusts, i. 37-40 



formation of, i. 38^0 



Great Ice Barrier, i. 39, 40 



on plateau south of Beardmore Glacier, i. 39 



crystals, i. 19 ; ii. 19 



dune ice, i. 101 



theory, i. 100, 101, 105 



granular, Ferrar Glacier, i. 89, 94 

 McMurdo Sound, i. 41 



Hill beds, Graham Land, i. 314 



Island, i 301, 311, 313, 317, 318 



inland, structure of, i. 61 



origin of, i. 16 



pie-crust, i. 37 



plateau, i. 19, 26 



recrystallisation of, ii. 10 



rippled, between layers of ice, i. 168 



supply, i. 25, 27-31 



tabloids, i. 89, 156, 164, 168 



trees, i. 41 



Valley, i. 98 

 Snowfall, i. 14, 15, 25, 27-31 



C. Royds, i. 17, 31, 32, 34, 102, 180 

 Scott's Depot A, i. 32 



Granite Harbour, i. 30 



Great Ice Barrier, i. 31, 32 



