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

THE GREAT EXTINCTIONS 241
Siberian tundra. It is reasonable to suppose that the same
cause that was responsible for the preservation of the meat
also preserved the ivory; and therefore that tens or hundreds
of thousands of animals were killed in the same way.
How can such low temperatures for the original freeze be
reconciled with the idea of individual accidents unless at
least the animals died in the middle of the winter? It is quite
certain that such temperatures could never have prevailed
at the surface or in mudholes during "spring freshets." Ripe
seeds and buttercups, found in the stomach of one of the
mammoths, to be discussed later, showed that his death took
place in the middle of the summer. It is obvious that during
the summer the temperature at the top of the permafrost
zone was and is 32 F. or o Centigrade,
less, since by definition that is where melting begins. And
from that point down there would be only a relatively
neither more nor
gradual fall in the prevailing temperature of the permafrost.
Even if mammoths died in the winter, it is difficult to see
how very many of them could have become well enough
buried to have escaped the warming effects of the thaws of
thousands of springs and summers, which would have rotted
both the meat and the ivory, unless there was a change of
climate.
The theory that mammoths may have been preserved by
falls into pits or into rivers encounters further objections.
Tolmachev, the Russian authority, pointed out that the remains
are often found at high points on the highest points
of the tundra (422:51). He notes that the bodies are found
in frozen ground, and not in ice, and that they must have
been buried in mud before freezing. This presents a serious
problem because, as he says,
... As a matter of fact, the swamps and bogs of a moderate climate
with their treacherous pits, in northern Siberia, owing to the permanently
frozen ground, could exist only in quite exceptional conditions
(422:57)-
Howorth remarked on this same problem: