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

THEICEAGES 49
Recent geological literature shows that a rather desperate
effort is being made to blur the significance of the new data.
We will return to this question later. Here I would like to
suggest some far-reaching implications of these facts. We have
seen an ice sheet appear and disappear ingeologically speak-
There are three deductions to be
inga twinkling of an eye.
made:
a. Any theory of ice ages must give a cause that can operate
so fast.
b. If the last icecap in North America appeared and disappeared
in 25,000 years, we cannot assume that the ancient
icecaps lasted for longer periods.
c. If other geological processes are correlated with ice ages,
then their tempo must also have been faster than we
have supposed, and a cause must be found for their
accelerated tempo.
In later chapters we shall see that a displacement of the
crust must accelerate these geological processes.
5. The New Evidence from Antarctica
Another kind of radioelement dating has provided us with
new data as revolutionary in their implications as the data
the radiocarbon method. This is referred to as
produced by
the radioelement inequilibrium method or (for short) the
ionium method of dating. It was developed by Dr. W. D.
Urry and Dr. C. S. Piggott, of the Carnegie
Institution of
Washington, before World War II (439, 440). In recent years
it has been widely applied in oceanographic research by both
American and foreign scientists.
The ionium method is used with sea sediments. It is based
upon three radioactive elements, uranium, ionium, and
radium, which are found in sea water and in sea sediments,
and that decay at different rates. As the result of the different