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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
TABLE II
The Pleistocene Glaciations
Zeuner
(European)
Wurm Glaciation
Stage III 25,000
Stage II 72,000
Stage I 115,000
Riss Glaciation
Stage II 187,000
Stage I 230,000
Mindel Glaciation
Stage II 435,000
Stage I 476,000
Gunz Glaciation
Stage II 550,000
Stage I 590,000
Penck 8c Bruckner
(European)
40- 18,000
130-100,000
430-370,000
520-490,000
when, in addition, we find they have all been wrong as to
the number of Pleistocene glaciations since a fifth one has
just turned up are we not justified in dismissing all these
estimates as speculations that are no longer worth discussing?
If there is any doubt as to the reasonableness of this con-
clusion, it should be put at rest by an entirely new estimate
of the glacial chronology just produced by Emiliani. Emili-
ani, working with marine cores, and applying some of the
new techniques of dating, has found that the earliest Pleisto-
cene glaciation occurred only 300,000 years ago, and that all
the four recognized European glaciations, and their alleged
American counterparts, have to be compressed into that
comparatively short period (152). This finding,
which there
is no rational reason to reject, completes our picture; it