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

THE GREAT EXTINCTIONS g6l
limestone . . ."; "a rib of a mammoth or mastodon found
12 feet below the surface of the ground in gravel" at Roches-
ter, and other instances (203:35-39).
Dr. Roy L. Moodie, of the New York State Museum, in
his Popular Guide to the Nature and the Environment of the
Fossil Vertebrates of New York, discusses a mastodon that
was deposited entire in a glacial pothole:
. . . The pothole was made by whirling waters grinding the loose
stones in a depression, gradually deepening in the post-glacial Mohawk
River, and the body of the mammoth carne down with the ice
and dropped into the hole. . . . (309:103-05).
This particular case provides an excellent illustration of the
process by which so many
of the animal bodies were torn
apart, not only in New York State but also probably
in Si-
beria, where the melting of a thinner ice sheet would still
have produced torrents in which the bodies detached from
the ice could be dashed against rocks and broken to pieces.
Hartnagel and Bishop, referring to the few remains of
mammoths that have been found in New York State, remark:
There is no doubt that the mammoth remains were imbedded in
the sand and gravels laid down during the recession of the ice sheet.
Examples of these are best seen in the Lewiston specimens of teeth
and bones which were found deeply buried in the spit formed in Lake
Iroquois.
. . .
(203:67).
Sir Charles Lyell visited the site of the discovery of a mastodon
near Geneseo, Livingston County, New York, and
described his observations in his Travels in North America^
in a passage quoted by Hartnagel and Bishop:
I was desirous of knowing whether any shells accompanied the
bones, and whether they were of recent species. Mr. Hall and I there-
fore procured workmen, who were soon joined by some amateurs o
Geneseo, and a pit was dug to a depth of about five feet from the
surface. Here we came upon a bed of white shell marl and sand, in
which lay portions of the skull, ivory tusk and vertebrae, of the extinct
quadruped. The shells proved to be all of existing freshwater
and land species now common to this district. I had been told that
the mastodon's teeth were taken out of muck, or the black superficial