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

226 EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
gests that it may have occurred earlier than the 85-foot general
fall in sea level, and may have required much more time.
The 85-foot fall in the general sea level we may explain as
the result of the withdrawal of water to Antarctica. The up
tilting of the continent may be seen as the result of its poleward
displacement.
The effect postulated by Gutenberg, to account for uplift
of areas displaced poleward, cannot account for the tilting,
but another effect may. This is the increasing compression
of the poleward-moving sector as the result of the progressive
shortening of the radius and circumference of the earth in
the higher latitudes. The compressions resulting from this
have been discussed. They result inevitably from the increasing
arc of the surface and the increasing convergence of the
meridians.