The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Albert Einstein j
AUTHOR'S NOTE: To the Layman and the Specialist 3
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 5
INTRODUCTION: A New Theory
i. Some Unsolved Problems, 10; 2. Crust Displacement as
a Solution, 13; 3. A Possible Cause of Crust Displace-
ment, 15
I. PAST THEORIES OF POLAR SHIFT 24
i. Older Theories, 24; 2, The Wegener Theory, 26;
3. New Proposals of Polar Shift, 32
II. THE ICE AGES 34
i. The Failure of the Older Theories, 34;
2. The Mis-
placed Icecaps, 35; 3. World-wide Phases of Cold Weather,
38; 4. The New Evidence of Radiocarbon Dating, 44;
5. The New Evidence from Antarctica, 49; 6. Conclu-
sion, 56
III. ANCIENT CLIMATES 58
i. Ages of Bloom in Antarctica, 58; 2. Warm Ages
in the
North, 61; 3. Universal Temperate Climates A Fallacy,
65; 4. The Eddington-Pauly Suggestion, 70; 5. The Con-
tribution of George W. Bain, 7156. The Contribution of
T. Y. H. Ma, 73; 7. On the Rate of Climatic Change, 77
IV. THE MOUNTAINS 79
Part I. The Folding and Fracturing of the Crust, 79;
i. The Problem of Crustal Folding, 80; 2. Campbell's
Theory of Mountain Building, 90; 3. The Effects of Poleward
Displacement, 100; 4. The Mountain-Building
Force, 103; 5. Existing Fracture Systems as Evidence for
the Theory, 104
Part 1L Volcanism and Other Questions, in; 6. Volcan-
ism, 1 1 1 ; 7. The Volcanic Island Arcs, 11418 The Heat of
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