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

EARLIER DISPLACEMENTS OF CRUST 2Q7
ate neighborhoods of the ice sheets. The oldest episode of
glacial deposition, about 60,000 years ago, coincides closely
with the time that we have assigned hypothetically for the
maximum of the Greenland glaciation.
A serious problem is presented by the fact that the sediment
deposited in the North Atlantic during the period from
23,700 to about 60,000 years ago is not actually glacial except
for brief episodes. How can this be accounted for if we are
to assume a pole in Greenland? For that matter, how can it
be accounted for if we are to extend the Wurm glaciation in
Europe back as far as the European geologists
mand?
seem to de-
It is obvious, from the brief recurrent episodes of glacial
deposition, that somewhere an ice sheet or ice sheets lay near
the coasts, so situated that when expanded in the brief
periods of greater cold brought on by massive volcanism, one
or more ice sheets reached the sea. It may be necessary to
consider that the pole in Greenland may not have been very
near the sea at that time, and, as I have already suggested, a
number of authorities are now receptive to the idea of a land
connection across the North Atlantic.
c. A North Atlantic Land Mass?
This, in turn, produces another problem.
If there was a land
connection across the North Atlantic, and if the pole was in
southern Greenland, would not the continental ice sheet
have entered the British Isles from the northwest, instead
of from the northeast, from the direction of Scandinavia?
Strangely enough, a very persuasive
book has been written
by Forrest (164) to sustain precisely this thesis. I have spent
considerable time checking his sources. I have gone through
many of the original reports he used, including numerous
field reports published by the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Liverpool Geological Society,
and other British geological societies. I have also checked
secondary works by various British geologists. As a result I