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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
washed up on the shore of one of the islands. It seems proba-
ble that only an incredibly powerful current could transport
the body of a mammoth across 200 miles of ocean.
But let us suppose that somehow the animals are transported
across the ocean. What then? The greatest of the New
and about half as
Siberian Islands is about 150 miles long
wide. Not one single account of the explorations on these
islands has mentioned that the animal remains are found
only along the beaches. They are obviously found also in the
interior. Are we to suppose that the floods of the Lena River
were so immense that they could inundate the New Siberian
Islands, 200 miles at sea? It is safe to say that all the rivers
of Europe and Asia put together, at full flood, would fail to
raise the ocean level 200 miles off the coast by more than a
few inches at most.
But, again, let us suppose that the remains were merely
washed to the present coasts, and not into the interior. How
then were they preserved? How were hundreds of thousands
of mammoths placed above high-water mark? Storms, no
doubt, but whatever storms can wash up, other storms can
wash away. No accumulation of anything occurs along the
coasts because of storms. All that storms can do is to destroy;
they can grind up and destroy anything. And they would
have ground up and destroyed all the bodies, including, of
course, the go-foot fruit tree with its branches, roots, seeds,
green leaves, and ripe fruit.
I think it is plain that the only reason suggestions of this
kind are advanced is that there is need to support some
theory that has been developed to explain some other part of
the evidence, some local problem. Moreover, there is need,
always need, to discredit the evidence that argues for drastic
climatic changes.
Naturally, the knowledge that the Arctic islands, though
they are now in polar darkness much of the year, were in
very recent geologic times able to grow the flourishing
forests of a temperate climate, eliminates any need to in-
sist that they were always as cold as they are today. Thus,