INTRODUCTION
In 1958, Charles Hapgood proposed that ice ages are caused by climate changes resulting from displacements of the earth’s crust over the mantle that shift the location of the geographic poles (Hapgood, 1958).
In previous stud- ies of more than two hundred archaeological sites, it was discovered that the alignments of almost half of the sites could not be explained (Carlotto, 2020a) and that about 80% of the unexplained sites appear to reference four lo- cations within 30° of the North Pole. Based on their cor- relation with Hapgood’s estimated positions of the North Pole over the past 100,000 years, we proposed that, by as- sociation, sites aligned to these locations could be tens to hundreds of thousands of years old (Carlotto, 2020b).
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The organization of this paper is as follows: In the first section, TRUE POLAR WANDER, we begin by reviewing the theory of plate tectonics and its relation to true po- lar wander (TPW) to understand how it differs from the first part of Hapgood’s theory.
The section MILANKOVIĆ CYCLES describes the extent to which known climate cycles can predict changes in sea level, which is inversely related to the amount of ice at the poles.
In POLE SHIFTS AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES it is argued that by combining Hapgood pole shifts with Milanković cycles over the past 100,000 years, we can better account for periodic sea- level changes and the associated buildup and melting of polar ice over the previous glacial cycle.
The next section, GEOMAGNETIC CHANGES, reviews evidence suggesting a connection between changes in the earth’s magnetic field, climate, and TPW events.
In CORRELATED EVENTS, dates of geomagnetic excursions (short-term reversals of the geomagnetic field), super-volcanic (TEI 7–8) eruptions, and sea-level changes over the past 100 Ky are compared with the timing of hypothesized pole shifts.
A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR CRUSTAL DISPLACEMENTS,...
SUBMITTED July 16, 2019 ACCEPTED February 3, 20 PUBLISHED May 22, 2022
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In 1958, Charles Hapgood proposed that ice ages are caused by climate changes resulting from displacements of the earth’s crust over the mantle that shift the location of the geographic poles (Hapgood, 1958).
In previous stud- ies of more than two hundred archaeological sites, it was discovered that the alignments of almost half of the sites could not be explained (Carlotto, 2020a) and that about 80% of the unexplained sites appear to reference four lo- cations within 30° of the North Pole. Based on their cor- relation with Hapgood’s estimated positions of the North Pole over the past 100,000 years, we proposed that, by as- sociation, sites aligned to these locations could be tens to hundreds of thousands of years old (Carlotto, 2020b).
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The organization of this paper is as follows: In the first section, TRUE POLAR WANDER, we begin by reviewing the theory of plate tectonics and its relation to true po- lar wander (TPW) to understand how it differs from the first part of Hapgood’s theory.
The section MILANKOVIĆ CYCLES describes the extent to which known climate cycles can predict changes in sea level, which is inversely related to the amount of ice at the poles.
In POLE SHIFTS AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES it is argued that by combining Hapgood pole shifts with Milanković cycles over the past 100,000 years, we can better account for periodic sea- level changes and the associated buildup and melting of polar ice over the previous glacial cycle.
The next section, GEOMAGNETIC CHANGES, reviews evidence suggesting a connection between changes in the earth’s magnetic field, climate, and TPW events.
In CORRELATED EVENTS, dates of geomagnetic excursions (short-term reversals of the geomagnetic field), super-volcanic (TEI 7–8) eruptions, and sea-level changes over the past 100 Ky are compared with the timing of hypothesized pole shifts.
A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR CRUSTAL DISPLACEMENTS,...
SUBMITTED July 16, 2019 ACCEPTED February 3, 20 PUBLISHED May 22, 2022
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