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

2 EARTHS SHIFTING CRUST
tion of this idea. He has also set forth, cautiously and comprehensively,
the extraordinarily rich material that supports his
displacement theory. I think that this rather astonishing, even
fascinating, idea deserves the serious attention of anyone who
concerns himself with the theory of the earth's development.
To close with an observation that has occurred to me while
writing these lines: If the earth's crust is really so easily dis-
placed over its substratum as this theory requires, then the
rigid masses near the earth's surface must be distributed in
such a way that they give rise to no other considerable centrif-
ugal momentum, which would tend to displace the crust by
centrifugal effect. I think that this deduction might be capable
of verification, at least approximately. This centrifugal
momentum should in any case be smaller than that produced
by the masses of deposited ice.