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

THE GREAT EXTINCTIONS 24Q
mainly on meadow grasses." Evidently he wandered into
low, moist places, and also into higher, drier places such as
are now found in the same region.
c. "The finding of the wood remains under the mammoth,
and even the cliff itself where the mammoth was lying, suggest
that he was not feeding in the place where he died. The
majority of the vegetation in his food did not grow along
cliffs or in conjunction with species of trees."
d. The discovery of the ripe fruits of sedges, grasses, and
other plants suggests that "the mammoth died during the
second half of July or the beginning of August."
The report concludes that while the contents of the stom-
ach do not prove that the climate was warmer in the days of
the mammoth than it is today, neither do they exclude the
possibility that it was warmer. However, the climate was, in
any case, not much warmer. The evidence provides no clew
to the cause of the extinction of the mammoths.
6. The Interpretation of the Report
On the assumption that we are dealing with a displacement
of the earth's crust beginning about 18,000 years ago and
ending about 8,000 years ago, possibly punctuated by pauses
and renewals of movement, and by massive outbursts of vol-
canism that accounted for the repeated readvances of the ice
in North America, and by warm phases between these read-
vances, when the temperatures may have been warmed by
the increasing percentage of carbon dioxide in the air, we
may attempt to reconstruct the progression of events in
Siberia. This may furnish a basis for the interpretation of the
report, and of the other facts about the mammoths cited
above.
To begin with, if North America was moving gradually
southward during this period (along the goth meridian, as
we assume), then East Asia was moving northward along the
continuation of the same meridian, and it moved at the same