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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
reality there were several more or less distinct ice sheets starting from
local centers, and expanding in all directions, north as well as east
and west and south. It was found, too, that these ice sheets were dis-
tributed in what seemed a capricious manner. Siberia, now including
some of the coldest parts of the world, was not covered, and the same
was true of most of Alaska, and the Yukon Territory in Canada;
while northern Europe, with its relatively mild climate, was buried
under ice as far south as London and Berlin; and most of Canada
and the United States were covered, the ice reaching as far south as
Cincinnati in the Mississippi Valley (87:7-9).
With regard to an earlier age (the Permo-Carboniferous),
Coleman emphasized that the locations of the icecaps were
even further out of line:
Unless the continents have shifted their positions since that time,
the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation occurred chiefly in what is now
the southern temperate zone, and did not reach the arctic regions at
all (87:90).
He is much upset by the fact that this ice age apparently did
not affect Europe:
Unless European geologists have overlooked evidence of glaciation
at the end of the Carboniferous or at the beginning of the Permian,
the continent escaped the worst of the glaciation that had such over-
whelming effects on other parts of the world. A reason for this exemption
is not easily found (87:96).
One of the most extraordinary cases is that of the great ice
sheet that covered most of India in this period. Geologists are
able to tell from a careful study of the glacial evidences in
what direction an ice sheet moved, and in this case the ice
sheet moved northward from an ice center in southern India
for a distance of 1,100 miles. Coleman comments on this as
follows:
Now, an ice sheet on level ground, as it seems to have been in
India, must necessarily extend in all directions, since it is not the
slope of the surface it rests on that sets it in motion, but the thickness
of the ice towards the central parts. . . .
The Indian ice sheet should push southward as well as northward.
Did it really push as far to the south of Lat. 17 as to the north? It