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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
While it is on the one hand clear that the ground
in which the
bodies are found has been hard frozen since the carcasses were en-
tombed, it is no less inevitable that when these same carcasses were
originally entombed, the ground must have been soft and unfrozen.
You cannot thrust flesh into hard frozen earth without it
destroying
Since Tolmachev can think of no other solution to this
problem, he finds himself forced to conclude that the mammoths
got trapped in mud when feeding on river terraces.
We have seen that this conflicts seriously with the conditions
of temperature required for the preservation of the meat,
whether they were feeding on the terraces during the summer,
when, presumably, the fresh grass supply would be
available there, or whether they were shoving aside the heavy
snowdrifts during the winter to attempt to get at the dead
grass below. For in either case they would fall into unfrozen
water, the temperature of which could not be lower than 32
Fahrenheit. Furthermore, if this is the way it happened, why
are the animals often found on the highest point of the
tundra?
Thus we see that the further we get into this question the
thornier it becomes. We shall have, for one thing, to face the
problem of the apparently sudden original freeze. How sudden,
indeed, must it have been? How can we account for it
on the assumption of a comparatively slow displacement of
the earth's crust? So far as the first question is concerned,
recent research has contributed interesting new data.
Research on the mechanics of the freezing process and its
effects on animal tissues has been carried forward consider-
ably since the experiments conducted by Birdseye's engineers.
In a recent article in Science, Meryman summarizes
the recent findings. These are based on extremely thorough
laboratory research, and they modify, to some extent, the
Birdseye findings.
Meryman shows that initial freezing at deep temperatures
is not required for the preservation of meat. On the contrary,
such sudden deep freeze may destroy the cells. He remarks,