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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
itself in bogs. Thus the great accumulations of bodies, such
as are found in Siberia, and such as probably also were piled
up by the rushing torrents coming from the melting Wisconsin
icecap, simply rotted away and left not a trace behind.
Now that we have satisfactorily established that the mastodons
were imprisoned in the Wisconsin icecap itself, it is
necessary to add the correction that, despite this, they also
survived the ice age, at least in western North America.
Radiocarbon dates from 9,600 to 5,300 years ago have been
found for some mastodon remains. It must be conceded that
they may possibly have survived in North America until a
much later date than this. They therefore could have lived
in New York State after the ice age and have been caught in
bogs. But they must also have lived in New York State before
the ice age and been caught in the icecap, for otherwise their
remains would not have been found in so many cases intermixed
with the glacial materials (434).
8. Storm!
I have referred to the possibility that the extinction of ani-
mals and preservation of their bodies may
be accounted for
in part by violent atmospheric disturbances, and I have of-
fered some evidence that such disturbances did accompany
the last displacement of the crust, and therefore, presum-
ably, earlier displacements.
It may be hard to distinguish between the effects on animal
life of ice action (that is, of being melted out of glaciers
and subjected to the action of glacial streams) and the effects
of atmospheric factors. Nevertheless, perhaps some evidence
of the operation of the atmospheric factors is available.
The evidence is presented, in part, by Professor Frank C.
Hibben, in The Lost Americans, and since his description of
the evidence is firsthand, and is presented so clearly, I have
asked his permission to reproduce the pertinent passages.
He begins with a general description of the Alaskan muck,