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

NORTH AMERICA AT THE POLE
the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science. Hillaby describes a paper by Professor Harold
Godwin of Cambridge University in which the professor
gives the results of extensive research into the question of
the date of the separation of England from the Continent.
The date has been found to be 5,000 B.C., or 7,000 years ago.
The report shows that the research work was very thorough.
Now, obviously, by 7,000 years ago the Scandinavian icecap
was long since gone, and the North American ice sheet was
reduced to a few Canadian remnants. Yet only now did the
North Sea bottom sink, and the English Channel become
flooded by the sea. There is evidently something wrong here.
There is a suggestion here that the floodings were produced
by readjustments of the crust, and not by glacial melt water.
There is evidence that the sea rose (or the land subsided)
farther on the western than on the eastern side of the At-
lantic. This, of course, suggests that the development was
not related to an increase of melt water. A good deal of this
evidence was presented years ago by J. Howard Wilson, in
his interesting Glacial History of Nantucket and Cape Cod
(454). Wilson argued that eastern North America must have
stood from 1,000 to 2,500 feet above its present level during
the ice age. If we take the lesser estimate and compare it with
the findings of Fisk and McFarlan (which they give as
minima only) we can see that they are in pretty good agreement.
Coleman was in agreement with Wilson, but based
his opinion on the evidence of submarine canyons, which, as
I have already mentioned, may have been created by fractur-
ing of the crust rather than by subaerial erosion and subse-
quent subsidence. Wright and Shaler, however, presented
evidence for a 2,ooo-foot higher elevation of Florida during
the ice age (460), an elevation that would mean a very differ-
ent distribution of land in the Caribbean during the period.
In two different ways this evidence agrees with our dis-
placement theory. First, as the direction of the movement of
the North Atlantic region would hypothetically have been
equatorward, some subsidence of the ocean basin was log-