Public Library (contents & extracts ) :
"Earth in Upheaval" by Immanuel Velikovsky
PREFACE
Chapter I IN THE NORTH
In
Alaska
The Ivory Islands
Chapter II REVOLUTION
The
Erratic Boulders
Sea and Land Changed Places
The Caves of England
The Aquatic Graveyards
Chapter III UNIFORMITY
The
Doctrine of Uniformity
The Hippopotamus
Icebergs
Darwin
in South America
Chapter IV ICE
The
Birth of the Ice Age Theory
On the Russian Plains
Ice Age in the Tropics
Greenland
Corals
of the Polar Regions
Whales
in the Mountains
Chapter V TIDAL WAVE
Fissures in the Rocks
The Norfolk Forest-Bed
Cumberland Cavern
In Northern China
The Asphalt Pit of La Brea
Agate Spring Quarry
Chapter VI MOUNTAINS AND RIFTS
Mountain Thrusts in the Alps and Elsewhere
The Himalayas
The Siwalik Hills
Tiahuanacu in the Andes
The Columbia Plateau
A Continent Torn Apart
Chapter VII DESERTS AND OCEANS
The
Sahara
Arabia
The
Carolina Bays
The
Bottom of the Atlantic
The
Floor of the Seas
Chapter VIII POLES DISPLACED
The
Cause of the Ice Ages
Shifting Poles
The
Sliding Continents
The
Changing Orbit
The Rotating Crust
Chapter IX AXIS SHIFTED
Earth in a Vice
Evaporating
Oceans
Condensation
A
Working Hypothesis
Ice
and Tide
Magnetic
Poles Reversed
Volcanoes,
Earthquakes, Comets
Chapter X THIRTY-FIVE CENTURIES AGO
Clock Unwound
The
Glacial Lake Agassiz
Niagara
Falls
The
Rhone Glacier
The
Mississippi
Fossils
in Florida
Lakes
of the Great Basin and the End of the Ice Age
Chapter XI KLIMASTURZ
Klimasturz
Tree Rings
Lake Dwellings
Dropped Ocean Level
The North Sea
Chapter XII THE RUINS OF THE EAST
Crete
Troy
The
Ruins of the East
Times and Dates
Chapter XIII COLLAPSING SCHEMES
Geology and Archaeology
Collapsing Schemes
In Early Ages
Coal
Chapter XIV EXTINCTION
Fossils
Footprints
The Caverns
Extinction
Chapter XV CATACLYSMIC EVOLUTION
Catastrophism and Evolution
The Geological Record and Changing Forms of Life
The Mechanism of Evolution
Mutations and New Species
Cataclysmic Evolution
Chapter
XVI THE END
SUPPLEMENT
Worlds in Collision in the Light of Recent Finds in Archaeology, Geology, and Astronomy
(An address delivered before the Graduate College Forum of Princeton University)