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

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EARLIER DISPLACEMENTS OF CRUST<br />

40 50<br />

1000 YEARS -<br />

60 70 eo 90<br />

Fig. X. North Atlantic Cores A 172-6, A 199-4, A 180-75<br />

period back to about 100,000 years ago. We will assume that<br />

this warm phase in the Atlantic represents the period, or at<br />

least the latter part <strong>of</strong> the period, when Alaska was at the<br />

pole.<br />

We note, too, that the temperature in the Atlantic during<br />

this warm period was not, at the sites <strong>of</strong> these cores, as high<br />

as the temperatures now prevailing there, except for two<br />

very brief spurts in Cores A 180-75 and A 179-4.<br />

Yet we<br />

have seen that the Urry core P- 12 6(5) indicated clearly that<br />

the water was warmer at that time than it is at present. How<br />

is this conflict to be solved? Shall we be forced to discredit<br />

the reliability <strong>of</strong> one finding or the other? Not at all. Our<br />

theory <strong>of</strong>fers the possibility <strong>of</strong> eliminating this apparent contradiction<br />

in the evidence.<br />

Let us consider the present and past latitudes <strong>of</strong> these<br />

cores. P-i26(5) was taken in about the latitude <strong>of</strong> St. John's,<br />

Newfoundland; the others were taken in very low latitudes.

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