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

ANCIENT CLIMATES 73
zones at the present time. This is, of course, fatal for the
theory of universal equable climates.
His second conclusion, of even greater importance, is that
the directions of the climatic zones have changed enormously
in the course of time. He finds the equator running through
the New Siberian Islands (in the Arctic Ocean) in the Permo-
Carboniferous Period, and North and South America lying
tandem along it (18:17). The evidence he uses seems to
establish his essential point (and ours) that the climatic zones
themselves have shifted their positions on the face of the
earth.
Dr. Bain has drawn some interesting further conclusions.
He states that the earth's crust must have been displaced over
the interior layers, and that "fixity of the axis of the earth
relative to the elastic outer shell just is not valid. . . ." (18:
46). He points to the fossil evidence of the cold zones (distributed
in circular areas) and says, ". . . The recurrent
change in position of these rings through geologic time can
be accounted for now only on the basis of change in the position
of the elastic shell of the earth relatively to its axis of
rotation" (18:46).
6. The Contribution of T. Y. H. Ma
Dr. Bain pointed out, in the paper above mentioned, that
among other indications of latitude, sea crustaceans and
corals may indicate latitude either by the presence or absence
of evidence of seasonal variations in growth. It happens that
corals have been very thoroughly investigated from precisely
this point of view.
By a remarkable parallelism of development, another theory
of displacement of the earth's crust took shape on the
opposite side of the earth at about the same time that Mr.
Campbell and I started on our project. Professor Ting Ying
H. Ma, an oceanographer, then at the University of Fukien,
China, came to the conclusion, after many years of study of