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

EARLIER DISPLACEMENTS OF CRUST
It appears that this anomalous fact may constitute, in it-
self, one of the most impressive confirmations of the whole
theory of displacements of the crust, for, if you look at a
globe and visualize the shift of the crust that moved Alaska
from, and Greenland to, the pole, and if you use a tape
measure to measure the distances from each polar position
to the Caribbean and to the equator off the bulge of Africa,
you will see that that particular polar shift should make only
a comparatively slight change in the latitude of the Carib-
bean, but a very radical change indeed in the latitude of the
eastern Equatorial Atlantic. And since the movement would
take the same period of time in both cases, the rate of movement
would necessarily be much more rapid in the eastern
Atlantic, and this both agrees with and explains the core
evidence.
5.
Alaska at the Pole
We have already seen that the assumption of Alaska's posi-
tion at the pole between about 80,000 and about 130,000
years ago helps to solve a number of important problems.
The idea for this position first occurred to me when I
learned of the work of Arrhenius (i3a), who took cores
from the North Pacific and found that there was a fall of
temperature in that area about 100,000 years ago. He decided
that that fall of temperature must have marked the
beginning of the ice age everywhere. But as we have seen,
the evidence shows that this "ice age" began at very different
times in different areas. We are forced to develop a theory
that will explain why the ice age developed in different areas
at different times.
I fully realize that this suggestion of one previous polar
location before another in an apparently endless succession
may cause some discomfort to the reader. He may be willing
to settle for the Hudson Bay pole; after all, the evidence is
rather overwhelming. The Greenland pole may be worth