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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
the crust helps us to account for the total amount of the
submergence. Each of these hypothetical movements would
have shifted the North Atlantic nearer the equator, and
therefore, according to the theory, would have favored subsidence
of land area relatively to sea level. The evidence of
very widespread volcanism in the whole basin of the North
Atlantic during the ice age (174) carries the implication,
also, that invasion of the lower parts of the crust by molten
magma of high density could have weighted and depressed
the area, in the manner suggested earlier (Chapter VI).
d. Additional Atlantic Cores
To return to our Atlantic cores, a rather interesting point
about Core is P~i26(5) that the deposition of glacial sediment
ceased about 14,000 years ago. It may be noticed, how-
ever, that in another of the Urry cores, P-i3o(g),
which was
taken much farther to the east, the deposition of glacial sediment
ceased 1 8,000 years ago. One might at first be inclined
to pass this over as an unimportant detail, until one realized
that with Hudson Bay at the pole the difference is com-
pletely explained. Under those circumstances, the second
core, which now lies to the east, would have been due south
of the first core, and it would be entirely natural that the
warming of the climate at the end of the ice age would be
felt first in the more southerly region. This, then, constitutes
additional evidence for the location of the Hudson Bay
region at the pole during the period of the Wisconsin glacia-
tion.
We have still to consider the Ericson-Suess-Emiliani At-
lantic cores. I reproduce, below, Suess's graph of the tempera-
ture changes in the Atlantic for the last 100,000 years, as
evidenced by these cores.
Now, to begin with, we note that according to these cores
the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean was at a peak between
75,000 and about 98,000 years ago; this agrees substantially
with the Urry core already discussed, but extends the warm