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

THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH 167
of water action, and the absence of minute organisms would
preserve indefinitely the freshness of the glacial evidences.
If there are any who still hesitate to accept the evidence of
several successive ice ages in Antarctica during the Pleisto-
cene, let them remember that we recognize four in North
America and in Europe during that period, and that even
here it is not always easy to assign glacial evidences to the
correct glaciation.
Once it is fully recognized that the geological evidence of
Antarctic ice recession must be reinterpreted, we are in a
better position to evaluate the large mass of evidence now at
hand regarding the present accumulation of snow in Antarc-
tica. Geologists have hesitated, because of the earlier evi-
dence, to interpret the data at all. Among the important
items of information are the following: Henry mentions evi-
dence of an accumulation of 18 feet of snow in seven years
on the Antarctic barrier ice (206:75). The party that visited
Antarctica on the icebreaker Atka in 1954 found evidence of
the accumulation of 60 feet of snow at one spot since 1928:
One of the Atka's three Bell helicopters took off with Commander
Glen Jacobsen, the ship's captain, as observer. It landed at the 1928
camp and found that one of the three towers was completely buried
in snow although it had originally stood more than 70 feet high. The
two others barely showed above the drifts (411).
In 1934, when Byrd made his second trip to Antarctica, he
found that the Ross Shelf ice had encroached 1 2 miles on the
sea since Scott charted it in 1911 and that there was much
more ice in the Bay of Whales than when Amundsen visited
it in 1911-13. Recently, Bernhard Kalb wrote in the New
York Times:
. . . Little America II the 1933-35 base had been built directly
on top of snow covered Little America I the 1928-30 base. But the
last twenty years of snowfall had obliterated that base, too. The only
reminders that there is a sort of Antarctic Troy entombed in the
Ross Sea shelf a spectacular table of glacier-fed ice floating in the
sea, three times the size of New York State were two steel radio
towers and the tops of half a dozen wooden antenna poles. The towers,