Pole shift theory........possible, IMO.
"Polar wandering is based on the idea that the outer shell of the
earth shifts about from time to time, moving some continents toward
and other continents away from the poles. Continental drift is based
on the idea that the continents move individually... A few writers
have suggested that perhaps continental drift causes polar wandering.
This book advances the notion that polar wandering is primary and
causes the displacement of continents.... This book will present
evidence that the last shift of the earth's crust (the lithosphere)
took place in recent time, at the close of the last ice age, and that
it was the cause of the improvement in climate."
http://www.viewzone.com/changingpoles.html
The "Shifting Poles Theory" was introduced by History Professor,
Charles H. Hapgood, whose fascination with geography and ancient maps
led to his re-discovery of the Piri Reis Map. This hand drawn Turkish
naval map had been gathering dust since the early 1500's, its
significance unrealized. On closer scrutiny, Hapgood observed evidence
of spherical trigonometry and a detailed knowledge of global
geography-- including the coastline of Antarctica at a remote time,
when it was free of ice. The map had been drawn just a few years after
Columbus visited the Americas. The cartographer, Admiral Piri Reis,
described his world map as having been drawn from "very old" reference
maps. It appeared as if some ancient, forgotten civilization had risen
to these capabilities, and then had disappeared. The identity of these
ancient mariners begged to be discovered.
<<snip>>
Some supportive historical facts were given by Hapgood to support
these shifts in continental position and climate:
* The presence of ice caps in North America and Northern Europe,
highly eccentric compared to the present north pole.
* The contemporaneous absence of ice caps from Siberia, which was
actually populated to its northernmost regions by an impressive
zoological community.
* The Arctic Sea was warmer than it is today, and there were human
beings living in the New Siberia Islands.
* Antarctica was partially free of ice.
* The general climatic situation of the Earth was coherent with a
different position of the poles.
So, while debate continues on the speed at which the poles have
changed, the fact of their shift seems well established. It also
appears that the shift will continue, as it likely has for millennia,
as part of a cycle we are just now beginning to understand.
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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10 Aug 2004 07:55:35 PM |
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Jha_amin wrote:
So, while debate continues on the speed
at which the poles have changed, the
fact of their shift seems well
established. It also appears that the
shift will continue, as it likely has for
millennia, as part of a cycle we are just
now beginning to understand.
Okay. That change is gradual, right?
A gradual shifting of the poles.
What about cataclysmic shifts of the past?
Will *they* happen again?
A cataclysmic inversion of the planet's axis of rotation, up to 180
degrees is technically the definition of a pole shift.
The gradual shift we can adjust to, it's that *other* one that scares
me! ;)
SuZanne
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| User: "jha_amin" |
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11 Aug 2004 11:12:34 AM |
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(Su Zanne) wrote in message news:<7800-41196E87-131@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net>...
Jha_amin wrote:
So, while debate continues on the speed
at which the poles have changed, the
fact of their shift seems well
established. It also appears that the
shift will continue, as it likely has for
millennia, as part of a cycle we are just
now beginning to understand.
Okay. That change is gradual, right?
A gradual shifting of the poles.
What about cataclysmic shifts of the past?
Will *they* happen again?
A cataclysmic inversion of the planet's axis of rotation, up to 180
degrees is technically the definition of a pole shift.
Yep....that would water sloshing arond would make a clean sweep of
everything. Wonder if this could have been responsible for a lot of
the rock distribution instead of the old glacier theory?
The gradual shift we can adjust to, it's that *other* one that scares
me! ;)
SuZanne
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| User: "Tadapope" |
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11 Aug 2004 11:56:04 AM |
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I predict it will happen on 9/21/06
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all 21 universes constantly and at random.
Oh Joy & Lysergically Yours!
Tom
The Psychedelick Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
Saint Isadore of Laytonville
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/
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| User: "Uncle Wallys World" |
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12 Aug 2004 04:50:12 AM |
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(Tadapope) wrote in message news:<20040811125604.03983.00001140@mb-m17.aol.com>...
I predict it will happen on 9/21/06
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all 21 universes constantly and at random.
Oh Joy & Lysergically Yours!
Tom
The Psychedelick Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
Saint Isadore of Laytonville
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/
21/12/12 -- so plenty of time, little buddy ;-)
Hooroo ;-)
Uncle Wally ;-)
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