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

260 EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
was a mass of yellowish fetid matter, probably the remains of some
vegetation which did not possess the staying qualities
of the balsamic
cone-bearers (203:15-16).
Several important points are illustrated in these passages.
They are all brought out, as well, in numerous other cases.
The more significant points appear to be:
a. The rib was found buried in the glacial material under
the muck, as already mentioned.
b. Some force crushed the jaw and separated other parts of
the body, without completely disturbing its natural position.
We shall find many cases of this sort of thing.
c. The stomach was found to contain evidence of vegetation
such as now grows in New York State. Since the animal
did not live after glacial times, and since the vegetation
naturally did not exist in New York State when it was covered
by a mile of ice, it follows that the animal lived in the
last Interglacial Period, and that New York then had a cli-
mate something like the present.
d. The discovery of the remains in a mire tells us nothing
of the mode of death, because only in a mire would they
have had any chance of being preserved. Animals dying in
other situations, or left in dry places by the retreating ice,
would have disintegrated completely.
e. The evidence favors the conclusion that the body of
the mastodon was preserved within the vast ice sheet itself,
and was deposited when the ice withdrew, in a bog where
conditions continued to favor its preservation. The power of
bogs to preserve animal and vegetable matter for long periods
is well known.
The instances cited by Hartnagel and Bishop of mastodons
that clearly were not mired in bogs include one mastodon
whose remains, a tusk, were found in sand near Fairport;
another whose tusk and teeth were found in sand and gravel
in the town of Perrinton; one whose remains (ribs, skull,
tusk, leg bone) were found "about four feet below the surface
in a hollow or water course, lying on and in a very hard
body of blue clay, and about two feet above the polished