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

EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
navia at least must then have lain somewhat farther from
the pole than it does now? Furthermore, why
did Alaska
but no continuous
then have many great mountain glaciers,
ice sheet? The latter is problem intensified by the considera-
tion that the particular movement of the crust that we are
supposing here, while it lowered the latitude of eastern North
America a great deal, must have slightly raised the latitude
of Alaska, especially that of northern Alaska. The reader
can make these relationships clear to himself by referring
now to a globe. We are assuming the displacement to have
occurred along the goth meridian.
The explanation of the glaciation of northwestern Europe
is, I think, as follows. First, the heaviest glaciation of Europe
is not contemporary with the Wisconsin ice sheet, but was
the consequence of an earlier polar position, which will be
discussed further on (Chapter IX). Secondly, the comparatively
thin European ice sheet of Wisconsin time (which in
Britain consisted really only of discontinuous mountain glaciers)
was made possible by a very special combination of
meteorological conditions. In North America a vast icecap
extended eastward from its center near Hudson Bay. Much
of the continental shelf in this whole area was then above
sea level, as, indeed, it should have been to agree with our
general theory, and this was covered by ice. Then the anticyclonic
winds, blowing outward in all directions from the
icecap, had only to cross the narrow North Atlantic, raising
moisture from the sea and depositing it upon Scandinavia
and Britain.
At first glance it might seem that a pole in Hudson Bay
would have involved a heavy glaciation of Greenland, but
there are reasons to suppose that it might, on the contrary,
involve a deglaciation. Depending on the precise location of
the pole, parts of Greenland would have lain farther from
it than they do from the present North Pole. Of greater importance,
however, is the fact that the Arctic Ocean would
have been a temperate, and even, on the Siberian side, a warm
temperate, sea. It would be likely, in these circumstances,