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

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
c. It follows that during 30,000,000 years it would be pos-
sible to have about 3,000 different layers of sedimentary
rock.
d. A vast majority of these layers cannot be sampled, either
because they no longer exist, or because they do not
contain fossils, or simply because of the amount of work
involved.
e. As a result, only the most unsatisfactory kind of spot
checking is possible. Perhaps a dozen strata out of 3,000
may be studied, and from these it must be obvious that
no dependable climatic record can be established.
f. Even with the unsatisfactory spot checking so far at-
tempted, reversals of climatic trends have been observed
(72).
of sediments
g. Climatic conditions indicated by a layer
deposited during a brief period of time in one location
cannot be assumed to indicate the direction of climatic
change over a great region, or over the whole earth. It
seems quite as reasonable to suppose that climatic
change in other regions at the same time was in a different
direction. Furthermore, it cannot be assumed that
two sedimentary deposits in different areas are of the
same age because they both indicate climatic change in
the same direction.
It must be concluded that all claims for gradual climatic
changes in the same direction over long periods of time and
over great areas are unsupported by convincing evidence.
The existence of such long-term trends can be supported
by no reasonable hypothesis. We are left with the conclusion
that climatic change has probably taken place within rela-
tively short periods of time, and possibly in opposite direc-
tions for different areas at the same time, as, indeed, would
be a natural consequence of displacements of the earth's
crust.