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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
So we are left with a clear-cut conclusion: Climatic zones
have always existed as they exist today, but they have fol-
lowed different paths on the face of the earth. If changes in
the position of the axis of rotation of the earth, and of the
earth upon its axis, are equally impossible, and if the drift
of continents individually is rendered extremely improbable
for numerous weighty reasons, then we are forced to the con-
clusion that the surface of the earth must often have been
shifted over the underlying layers.
4. The Eddington-Pauly Suggestion
Another suggestion for displacements of the earth's crust, to
which I have briefly referred, should now be further dis-
cussed. Its author, Karl A. Pauly, has contributed new lines
of evidence in support of such shifts. He has based his dis-
placement theory on Eddington's suggestion that the earth's
crust may have been displaced steadily through time by the
effects of tidal friction. Eddington's idea has serious weak-
nesses, but the evidence for displacements presented by Pauly
is most impressive.
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Pauly suggests that a study
of the elevations above sea level
of the terminal moraines of mountain glaciers in all latitudes
can establish a correlation of elevation with latitude. It is
true that many factors influence the distance a mountain
glacier may extend downward toward sea level, but latitude
is one of them, and by using a sufficient number of cases it is
possible to average out the other factors, and arrive at the
average elevation of mountain glacier moraines above sea
level for each few degrees of latitude from the equator toward
the poles. This gives us a curve that makes it possible to com-
the elevations of the terminal moraines of mountain
pare
glaciers that existed during the Pleistocene Period. Pauly
finds that these moraines do not agree with the curve, indi-
cating unmistakably a displacement of the earth's crust (342:
89).