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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
peaty earth of the bog. I was therefore glad
to ascertain that it was
really buried in the shell-marl below the peat, and therefore agreed
in situation with the large fossil elks of Ireland, which, though often
said to occur in peat, are in fact met with in subjacent beds of marl
(203:31-32).
Let us, in passing, note in this passage the evidence that
whatever occurred in Siberia and in North America (though
perhaps at different Ireland.
times) seems also to have occurred in
If it is now clear that the mastodons were actually con-
tained in the great continental glacier, a question may arise
as to their probable numbers. Were these animals rare or did
they exist in great herds? Hartnagel and Bishop quote an
earlier writer, who remarked:
... I have been particular in stating the relative situations and
distances of those places in which bones have been discovered, from
a certain point, to show, from the small district in which many dis-
coveries have been made, the great probability that these animals
must have been very numerous in this part of the country, for if we
compare the small proportion that swamps, in which only they are
found, bear to the rest of the surface, and the very small proportion
that those parts of such swamps as have yet been explored, bear to
the whole of such swamps, the probable conclusion is that they must
once have existed here in great numbers (203:62).
It must not be supposed that only mastodons and some
mammoths were thus caught in the ice sheet and deposited
as it retreated. Hartnagel and Bishop give instances of the
finding of remains of foxes, horses, large bears, black bears,
giant beaver, small beaver, peccaries, deer, elk, caribou,
moose, and bison, forming a mixture of extinct and still
living species, all deposited in the same way (203:81-94).
Moreover, discoveries were not confined to New York State,
but embraced the entire area once covered by the great ice
sheet
We must therefore conclude that in all probability some
millions of all these sorts of animals were enclosed in the ice
sheet. Now the question must be asked, Did they live in the
regions where they are now found, or were they carried