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Alps

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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

Alps its own citations 4 paragraphs

60:1.4Over Eu­rope, es­pe­cially Ger­many and Rus­sia, may be found de­posits of this pe­riod. In Eng­land the New Red Sand­stone be­longs to this epoch. Lime­stone was laid down in the south­ern Alps as the re­sult of a sea in­va­sion and may now be seen as the pe­cu­liar dolomite lime­stone walls, peaks, and pil­lars of those re­gions. This layer is to be found all over Africa and Aus­tralia. The Car­rara mar­ble comes from such mod­i­fied lime­stone. Noth­ing of this pe­riod will be found in the south­ern re­gions of South Amer­ica as that part of the con­ti­nent re­mained down and hence pre­sents only a wa­ter or ma­rine de­posit con­tin­u­ous with the pre­ced­ing and suc­ceed­ing epochs.

61:1.12Dur­ing the lat­ter part of this epoch most of Eu­rope was sub­merged. Fol­low­ing a slight land rise the con­ti­nent was cov­ered by lakes and bays. The Arc­tic Ocean, through the Ural de­pres­sion, ran south to con­nect with the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea as it was then ex­panded north­ward, the high­lands of the Alps, Carpathi­ans, Apen­nines, and Pyre­nees be­ing up above the wa­ter as is­lands of the sea. The Isth­mus of Panama was up; the At­lantic and Pa­cific Oceans were sep­a­rated. North Amer­ica was con­nected with Asia by the Bering Strait land bridge and with Eu­rope by way of Green­land and Ice­land. The earth cir­cuit of land in north­ern lat­i­tudes was bro­ken only by the Ural Straits, which con­nected the arc­tic seas with the en­larged Med­i­ter­ra­nean.

61:1.13Con­sid­er­able foraminiferal lime­stone was de­posited in Eu­ro­pean wa­ters. To­day this same stone is el­e­vated to a height of 10,000 feet in the Alps, 16,000 feet in the Hi­malayas, and 20,000 feet in Ti­bet. The chalk de­posits of this pe­riod are found along the coasts of Africa and Aus­tralia, on the west coast of South Amer­ica, and about the West In­dies.

61:7.3In Asia the Siberian ice sheet made its south­ern­most in­va­sion, while in Eu­rope the ad­vanc­ing ice stopped just short of the moun­tain bar­rier of the Alps.

Heidelberg migration to 1 paragraph

64:2.3They were fol­lowed in Eu­rope by a some­what su­pe­rior and pro­lific peo­ple, whose de­scen­dants soon spread over the en­tire con­ti­nent from the ice in the north to the Alps and Med­i­ter­ra­nean in the south. These tribes are the so-called Hei­del­berg race.

plants and animals dislocated by glaciers found in 1 paragraph

61:7.16The en­forced mi­gra­tion of life be­fore the ad­vanc­ing ice led to an ex­traor­di­nary com­min­gling of plants and of an­i­mals, and with the re­treat of the fi­nal ice in­va­sion, many arc­tic species of both plants and an­i­mals were left stranded high upon cer­tain moun­tain peaks, whither they had jour­neyed to es­cape de­struc­tion by the glacier. And so, to­day, these dis­lo­cated plants and an­i­mals may be found high up on the Alps of Eu­rope and even on the Ap­palachian Moun­tains of North Amer­ica.

volcanoes in Cretaceous 1 paragraph

60:3.6Great vol­canic ac­tions oc­curred south of the Alps and along the line of the pres­ent Cal­i­for­nia coast-range moun­tains. The great­est crustal de­for­ma­tions in mil­lions upon mil­lions of years took place in Mex­ico. Great changes also oc­curred in Eu­rope, Rus­sia, Japan, and south­ern South Amer­ica. The cli­mate be­came in­creas­ingly di­ver­si­fied.

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Cited alongside: Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, limestone, Russia, volcanoes, Africa