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

measurements of in Greenland,
381; "exists only in imagination,"
177; extreme slowness of,
161-63; imperfect or lacking in
Antarctica, 159, 160, 161; and
in Scandinavia, 161; ineffective
in counteracting centrifugal ef-
fects of icecaps, 164; measure-
ments highly doubtful, 160; a
rare, exceptional condition, 178;
seemingly lacking under pene-
plains, 177
ivory, 228, 238-39
Jurassic, 63, 66, 72, 107, 131; coal
deposits, 71
Labyrinthodonts, 63
land bridges, 135(1, 139, 285, 297-
300, 305, 325-26; and evolution,
321; explained, 149
Laramide Revolution, 131
lava floods, 111, 126, 204, 207
Lepidodendron, 62
Libocedrus, 65
lignite, in Greenland, 64
lime trees, 65
lithosphere, 27-28, 99-100, 175,
352. See also asthenosphere,
crust, displacements, earth-
quakes, fractures
"living fossils/' 320-21
lowering of temperature, worldwide,
and volcanism, 42-43, 206;
explained by displacement, 43;
will not explain simultaneous
glaciation and deglaciation, 194;
will not explain Wisconsin gla-
ciation, 194-95; wrongly as-
sumed, 38-44
macromutation, 319
magma, 84, 153, 157, 188; and
fractures of crust, 91, 96, Figs.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 433
III-VI, 119-120, 122-123; and
mountain building, 98-100
magnetic field of earth, changes
in, related to displacements, 33,
308
mammoth, 227, 228, 250-51, 256,
258, 261, 335; Beresovka, 8, 244-
49, 250, 253ff; diet included
grasses and buttercups, 243, 246-
47, but no conifers, 248, nor
typical Arctic plants, 246-47;
probable cause of his death,
253-55; stomach contents ana-
lyzed, 245-49; species, edibility,
239-40; frozen, 228, 240-44; in
summer, 243; lacks sebaceous
glands, 229; not adapted to cold,
228-32; probably same species
as Indian elephant, 233; remains
allegedly washed to polar
islands by spring floods, 234;
refuted, 235-36; source of ivory,
228; study of skin, compared
with that of Indian elephant,
229; subcutaneous fat layer,
231-33; tusks dredged up from
Arctic Ocean, 251
"Mankato Advance" (of Wiscon-
sin icecap), 201, 211, 288
"Mankato Maximum" (high point
of Mankato Advance phase of
Wisconsin icecap), 201, 202, 212,
213
of ice-
maps, confirming hypothesis
free period in Antarctica, 52n.
Mars, 126-27
mastodon, 227, 257-65, 335; diet
included plants common in
present-day New York State,
260, 264-65; survived ice age,
266; found in bogs and swamps,
257-58; stomach contents ana-
lyzed, 257, 264
mathematics, limitation of, 378