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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
have three cores taken some distance apart that seem, never-
theless, to agree pretty well with each other, even though
there are evidences of some disturbance, and their evidence
is strengthened by their agreement
with the Arctic cores to
be discussed later on.
From our point of view, the precise accuracy of the dating
is less important than the evidence that, in very recent time,
there was deposition of temperate type sediment in the Ross
Sea off the Antarctic coast.
6. Conclusion
It is clear that none of the great glaciations of the past can
be explained by the theories hitherto advanced. The only
ice age that is adequately explained is the present ice age in
Antarctica. This is excellently explained. It exists, quite obvi-
ously, because Antarctica is at the pole, and for no other
reason. No variation of the sun's heat, no galactic dust, no
volcanism, no subcrustal currents, and no arrangements of
land elevations or sea currents account for the fact. We may
conclude that the best theory to account for an ice age is
that the area concerned was at a pole. We thus account for
the Indian and African ice sheets, though the areas once occupied
by them are now in the tropics. We account for all ice
sheets of continental size in the same way.
Stokes has provided an excellent list of specifications for a
satisfactory ice age theory, every one of which is met by the
assumption of crust displacements as the fundamental cause
(405:815-16):
a. An initiating event or condition.
b. A mechanism for cyclic repetitions or oscillations within
the general period of glaciation.
c. A terminating condition or event.
d. It should not rely upon unprovable, unobservable, or
unpredictable conditions, when well-known or more
simple ones will suffice.