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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
ments taken from the teeth there were found eight whole bean pods
in a very good state of preservation; they even in places retained five
beans. . . . [The plant is now found in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions,
but also in the northern forests. It grows in rather dry places.]
In addition to the nine species mentioned above, and de-
scribed in the report, with numerous measurements, the
author reports that two kinds of mosses were identified in
the stomach contents by Professor Broterus, of Finland.
There were five sprigs of Hypnum fluitans (Dill.) L. and one
sprig of Aulacomnium turgidum (Wahlenb.) Schwaegr. The
first is common in Siberia north of the Gist parallel of latitude
and to the marshlands of northern Europe. Both of them "belong
to species widely distributed over both the wooded and
the tundra regions."
The report states, further, that another scientist, F. F. Herz,
brought back several fragments of woody substances and bark
from beneath the mammoth, and of the species of vegetation
among which it was lying. Very surprisingly, these were
found to differ in a marked degree from the contents of the
stomach. A larch (Larix sp.) was finally identified, but the
genus only, not the species.
Another tree identified in a general way was Betula Alba
L.S.I., but the exact species could not be determined. The
same was true of a third tree, Alnus sp. "All three of these
kinds grow at present in the Kolyma River basin, and along
the Beresovka, as they are widespread in general from the
northern limits of the wooded belt to the southern plains."
The general conclusions reached in the report are as
follows.
a. The remains of plants in the mammoth's mouth, among
its teeth, were the same as the stomach contents, and represented
food the mammoth had not yet swallowed when it was
killed.
b. The food consisted preponderantly of grasses and sedge.
"No remains at all of conifers were found." Therefore, "one
may conclude that the Beresovka mammoth did not, as was
previously thought, feed mainly on coniferous vegetation but