INDEX
- A.
- Acheulian, 52
- Aciphylla, 125
- Africa, 103, 133, 142
- Aftonian, 87
- Ahlmann, 51, 61
- Alaska, 43, 124
- Algonquin, Lake, 123
- Alps, dry period, 122
- glaciation, 29, 52, 56
- retreat stadia, 119
- Altai Mountains, 77
- Anau, ruins, 163
- Ancylus, 120, 127
- Andersson, 118, 121
- Andes, 98
- Antarctica, 114, 133
- Anticyclonic circulation, 55
- Antipodes Is., 112
- Aral Sea, 83
- Argentine, 100
- Arizona, 94, 150
- Arrhenius, 19
- Artesian water (Australia), 110
- Aryans, 164
- Asia, 76, 125, 139, 143, 153
- Astronomical theory, 17
- Atlantic Stage, 126
- Atlas Mountains, 69
- Australia, 109, 125, 155
- B.
- Balearic Is., 70
- Balkans, 69
- Baltic Interstadial, 64
- Banded clays, 49, 93
- Baraba steppes, 121
- Barkans, 65
- Barrell, 159
- Beddard, 115
- Belfast, 130
- Biloculina, 133
- Blytt, 127
- Bonneville, Lake, 93
- Brazil, 101
- British Isles, 57, 62, 64, 136
- Brögger, 129
- Bronze Age, 138
- Brückner, 49, 57, 154
- Buenos Aires, sand-dunes, 125
- Bühlstadium, 119
- C.
- Calabrian, 68
- Cambrian, 33
- Campbell Is., 102
- Canada, post-glacial, 132
- Cape Colony, raised beaches, 133
- Carbon dioxide, 19
- Carboniferous, 34
- Caspian, 83, 143, 153
- Chamberlin, 19
- Champlain Stage, 123
- Chellean, 51
- Cherry, 160
- Chile, rainfall fluctuations, 157
- China, 81, 139
- Chronology, 48, 92
- Chudeau, 106
- Classical Rainfall Maximum, 140
- Climatic Record, 132
- Coleman, 92
- Colorado, 94
- Continentality, 25
- Continental Phase, 120
- Continents, movement of, 21
- Cordilleran glaciation, 87
- Corsica, 69
- Craig, 72
- Cretaceous, 37
- Crete, Neolithic, 163
- Croll, 18
- Cro-Magnards, 161
- Cyrenaica, desiccation, 142
- D.
- Daun-stadium, 119
- David, 110
- Dead ice, 132
- Denmark, continental phase, 122
- Depressions, path of, 47, 60, 71, 122, 139
- Devonian, 34
- Diluvium, 48
- Don Valley, 91
- Douglass, 143
- Drakensberg Mountains, 103
- Drought in Forest Period, 139
- Drumkelin Bog, 137
- Dunes, fossil, 65
- Frisian, 140
- E.
- Early Iron Age, 141
- Earth’s Orbit, eccentricity of, 18
- Earthworms, 115
- East Anglia, 47, 57
- Eccentricity of Earth’s Orbit, 18
- Ecuador, 99
- Egypt, 72
- Eoanthropus, 161
- Eocene glaciation, 37
- Etosha Pan, 107
- Europe, 49, 55, 118, 127, 136, 154
- Evans, 163
- Evolution of Man, 155
- F.
- Fairgrieve, 138
- Falkland Is., 97
- Fennoscandian Pause, 119
- Finiglacial, 118
- Finland, post-glacial, 120, 128
- Florida, 95
- Forest bed, 47, 51
- period, 122, 136
- Forests, submerged, 137
- Formby and Leasowe Beds, 130
- Fossil ice, 59, 78
- Franz Josef Land, 130
- Frech, 20
- Freydenberg, 106
- Frisian dunes, 140
- Fucino, Lago di, 154
- Fucus in Spitzbergen, 130
- G.
- Gable Island, 98
- Galaxiidæ, 115
- Geer, G. de, 49, 93, 118
- Geikie, J., 51, 81
- Geographical theory, 22
- Geological formations, 31
- rhythms, 38
- Gibbon, 140
- Gibraltar, 69, 70
- Gila conglomerate, 95
- Glacial anticyclone, 55
- stages, 48
- Globigerina, 133
- Glossopteris, 35
- Gondwanaland, 34, 35
- Gotiglacial, 118
- Graham Land, glaciation, 114
- Great Basin, America, 89, 93, 124
- Great Lakes, history, 123
- Great Salt Lake, 93
- Greece, Heroic Age, 164
- Greenland, 131, 156
- Gregory, 104
- Grimaldi Race, 161
- Gschnitz Stadium, 119
- Gunz Glaciation, 56
- Gunz-Mindel Interglacial, 50, 51, 56
- H.
- Haplochitonidæ, 115
- Hazel, post-glacial extension, 122
- Hedley, 116
- Heidelberg Man, 161
- Height and temperature, 26
- Hildebrandsson, 157
- Himalayas, 81
- Hobley, 105, 107
- Hohokam, 150
- Hume, 72
- Humphreys, 20
- Huntington, 141, 144, 150, 153, 162
- I.
- Ice on Danish coasts, 155
- Iceland, 125, 156
- Illinoian glaciation, 90
- Ingo Is., forests, 122
- Iowan Glaciation, 90
- Ireland, glaciation, 57, 62, 64
- Heroic Age, 138
- Iroquois, Lake, 123
- Isohalines, 127
- J.
- Japan, 81
- Jurassic, 37
- K.
- Kalahari, 107
- Kamchatka, 80
- Kansan, 88
- Karst flora, 121
- Kashmir, 143, 153
- Keewatin, 88, 91
- Keidel, 99
- Kenya, 103
- Kilimanjaro, 103
- Kioga, Lake, 104
- Kitchen-midden, 125
- Kosciusko, 109
- Kreichgauer, 20
- Kupffer, 121
- L.
- Labradorean Glaciation, 87, 89, 90
- Lahontan, Lake, 93
- Lena Valley, 78
- Leverett, 91, 92
- Limestone Agglomerate, 70
- Littorina, 128
- Loess, 52, 83, 91, 112
- Lofoten Islands, 61
- Lop-Nor, 83, 153
- M.
- Mackenna, 157
- Maglemose culture, 125
- Malta, 69
- Mammoths, frozen, 79
- Marsupials, 115
- Mathew, 160
- Maumee, Lake, 123
- Maya ruins, 151
- Mediæval Rainfall Maximum, 164
- Medicine Bow Range, 94
- Mediterranean, 68, 142
- Mesopotamia, Empires, 139
- Mexico, culture, 151
- Meyer, 99
- Micmac Stage, 124
- Mindelian Glaciation, 49, 69
- Mindel-Riss Interglacial, 50
- Miocene, 44
- Mombasa, 105
- Mono Basin, 94
- Montelius, 163
- Mousterian Man, 63
- Munthe, 118
- Murgoci, 66
- Murman coast, 130
- N.
- Najas, 129
- Neanderthal Man, 161
- Negro, 142
- Neolithic, 122, 131, 136, 163
- migration, 125, 163
- Neudeckian, 51
- Neuhauss, 111
- Newfoundland, 87, 90
- New Guinea, 111
- New Siberian Islands, 78
- New South Wales, 125
- New Zealand, 111, 125, 133
- Ngami, Lake, 107
- Niagara, 93, 132
- Nile, 72, 119
- Nordenskjold, 117
- Nordic Race, 125
- Norfolkian, 51
- North America, 86, 122, 132, 141, 149
- North Sea, 56, 61
- Norway, 51, 55, 129
- O.
- Obliquity of Ecliptic, 16, 120
- Old Red Sandstone, 34
- Optimum of Climate, 127
- Ordovician, 33
- P.
- Pajaritan, 150
- Palmyra, 142
- Pamirs, 77
- Pampean, 100, 125
- Patagonia, post-glacial, 133
- Patom Highlands, 78
- Peat-bog Period, 140
- Penck, 49, 51
- Pendulation Theory, 20
- Peorian, 91
- Permian, 35
- Persia, 84, 142
- Peru, 99
- Pettersson, 134, 145
- Piedmont ice-sheets, 57, 109
- Piltdown Man, 161
- Pithecanthropus, 160
- Pliocene, 47
- Pluvial periods, 71, 140
- Poles, motion of, 20, 40
- Pre-Cambrian Glaciation, 33
- Proterozoic Glaciation, 32
- Pueblo ruins, 150
- Pulse of Asia, 153
- Pumpelly, 84, 163
- Pyrenees, 57
- Q.
- Quaternary Ice Age, 47
- R.
- Ragunda, Lake, 49
- moraines, 121
- Reid, 138
- Retreat of the Ice, 49
- Riss Glaciation, 49, 61
- Riss-Wurm Interglacial, 50, 53
- Rixdorf, 62
- Rodgers, 133
- Romania, 66
- Ruwenzori, 103
- S.
- Sagas, 141, 146
- Sahara, 74, 105
- Sangamon, 90
- Scania, 49
- Schmidt, 53
- Scotland, 57, 61, 64
- Scrobicularia Zone, 130
- Selsey, 58
- Sequoia, 143
- Shell-banks, 47, 56
- Siberia, 78
- Sicilian, 70
- Sierra Nevada, 93, 94
- Sievers, 99
- Silurian, 33
- Skærumhede, 63
- Slugs, 115
- Smith, Elliott, 159
- Solar radiation, 15
- South America, 97, 125, 132, 157
- South Georgia, 97
- South Orkneys, 114
- Spitaler, 18
- Spitzbergen, 80, 130
- Stanovoi Mountains, 79
- Steppe climate, 53
- Stone rivers, 98
- Submerged forests, 137
- Suess, Lake, 104
- Sunspots, 145
- Susa, Neolithic, 163
- Sven Hedin, 84
- Sweden, 49, 56, 118
- Syria, 72
- T.
- Tapes, 129
- Tasmania, 109
- Tchad, 106
- Tertiary, 42, 116
- Thracia Zone, 131
- Tian-Shan Mountains, 77
- Tibet, 82
- Tidal friction, 39
- Tide-generating force, 134, 145
- Tierra del Fuego, 97, 133
- Tillite, 32
- Titicaca, Lake, 101
- Toronto Stage, 91
- Trapa, 129
- Trasimeno, Lake, 154
- Tree-rings and rainfall, 143
- Turbarian, 140
- Triassic, 37
- Tyndall, 19
- U.
- Uinta Mountains, 94
- Unio in Niagara, 132
- Ural Mountains, 57
- V.
- Venezuela, 100
- Verkhoiansk Mountains, 79
- Victoria Nyanza, 104
- Vikings, 164
- Volcanic dust, 16, 20
- Vollossovitsch, 79
- W.
- Wales, 57, 64
- Warren, Lake, 123
- Wasatch Mountains, 93, 94
- Wayland, 104
- Wegener, 20, 34
- Wernert, 53
- White Sea, 130
- Wine harvest, 155
- Winters, severe, 155
- Wisconsin Glaciation, 91, 92
- Wolf, 145
- Wurm Glaciation, 48
- Y.
- Yarmouth Stage, 88
- Yoldia Sea, 50, 124
- Yucatan, 151
- Yukon, 124
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