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

NORTH AMERICA AT THE POLE
radiocarbon method and on the general agreement of the
radiocarbon dates with the dates found by the Swedish Time
Scale. With regard to the date of the Mankato Advance chal-
lenged by Antevs, she says:
The whole method of C 14 determinations, however, is taken up
by America's most clever research men and practiced very critically
most of all the special test at Two Creeks. As they were startled
by the low figures of years obtained, they repeated the investigation
several times. As the same value always recurred, such critical persons
might well have examined eventual deficiencies of the material
before publishing a result regarded generally as unbelievable. Since
such a procedure was not found necessary, the test is probably reliable,
although many others may be doubtful (108:514).
However, Antevs succeeds in making it plain that some of
the late Dr. de Geer's dates, as found by the method of count-
ing clay varves, are inconsistent with radiocarbon dates.
Now here is a shocking conflict between experts, each with
years of experience
in the field and direct access to all the
relevant data. How can it be resolved? It seems very likely
that the evidence stressed by both is largely, though not en-
tirely, sound. Yet the difference between them is a major
difference.
This contradiction may be resolved by the simple assumption
that North America lay at the pole during the Wiscon-
sin period. By this assumption, Europe would have been a
long way south of the Hudson Bay region. As I pointed out
earlier, the thinner European ice, and the fact that it did not
reach so far south as ice did in America, can be accounted
for in this way. The more rapid retreat of the European
that it
glacier is entirely understandable on the assumption
occupied a lower latitude. The simultaneous phases of retreat
and advance, then, and the faster general retreat of the
European glacier are both understandable.
This problem of the relationship of the American and
European glaciations raises another question. Why was it
that, with a pole in Hudson Bay or western Quebec, Great
Britain and Scandinavia were glaciated at all, since Scan3i-