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

CONCLUSION 385
while to mention Ewing's recent discovery of a world-wide
system of great submarine canyons, along which the crust is
technically active. Observers have suggested that these can-
yons are still widening. Breen has pointed out that their pattern
(not yet fully established) is consistent with the effects
of a force attempting to pull the Western Hemisphere southward
(44).
I am aware that the items that I have mentioned above
may all be explained someday according to other principles,
and may in fact have nothing to do with centrifugal effects
from Antarctica. However, I feel that a definite chance exists
that the phenomena may be related, and that they may indicate
that beginning of a crust displacement is not remote. The
question therefore arises as to whether, in case of another
displacement, it is possible to predict anything
about it in
detail. Among the questions to which answers may be sought
are those of the precise direction the displacement may take,
and the total distance it may cover.
As to the first question, our theory offers us the basis for
a reasonable estimate. If our finding of the location of the
center of mass of the Antarctic icecap is correct, and if we
assume that no other centrifugal effects from anomalies in
the crust will be acting to deflect the motion, we may expect
the next displacement to be in the direction of 96 E. Long,
from the South Pole. This would involve another southward
displacement of the Western Hemisphere, together with another
northward displacement of East Asia.
A guess as to the magnitude of the next displacement re-
quires the correct assessment of a number of rather imponderable
factors. We should expect the crust to continue to
move until the Antarctic icecap was largely destroyed. This
might take longer
than it did in the case of the North Amer-
ican icecap, because the Antarctic icecap is larger. On the
other hand, it could take less long, because in the case of
Antarctica there is no land available for the rearward build-
up of the icecap as it moves into the lower latitudes, such as
seems to have occurred in North America. Perhaps we shall