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incredibly powerful flood waters operating worldwide could have achieved such results, and only a flood produced by the means previously suggested could have operated globally. (p. 255) ...Earth sustained fearful crustal damage during its encounter with Phaeton and acquired an almost completely rearranged topography. The former disposition of land and sea was changed, a new world mountain system came into being, the number of active volcanoes was augmented enormously, a legacy of seismic activity was bequeathed which is far from over, a new land drainage pattern was instituted, and completely different oceanic and atmospheric circulatory regimes were established. (p. 263) “And the kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.” Inevitably, the inhabitants of high latitudes experienced the most massive rising of the deluge waters as they became piled up into a gargantuan “water mountain” submerging all land. Salvation in “arks” and other floating refuges was the sole means of escape for those communities... (p. 303) The Phaeton disaster proper marked the singlemost momentous point in intelligent humanity’s history so far— the Deluge of global tradition representing our most abiding memory of it—can surely no longer be doubted. (p. 341) Many of these “erratic boulders” are of immense size and weight, the very largest being literally miles long. In some districts, they abound in almost unbelievable numbers... (p. 9) Studies have shown that at 10,178 B.C., or over 12,000 years ago, the celestial Pole was inclined at an angle of 30 degrees from its present position. This in turn strongly suggests that the terrestrial axis then oriented differently from today. (p. 15) Significantly, a drop in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field appears to have occurred sometime between 13,750 and 12,350 years ago. This was attended by various other important changes, including earthquakes, vulcanism, water table fluctuations and large scale climatic variations. Of these, severe earthquakes in particular may even induce axial wobble and polarity reversals. (p. 183) The widespread occurrence of solid rocks possessing a reversed polarization has long interested geo- physicists, who have spent many decades investigating the causes and significance of this apparent anomaly. (p. 182) Despite the demonstrated occurrence of an unexpectedly large number of magnetic reversals throughout Earth history, it cannot be a mere coincidence that a particularly well-marked reversal took place around the general date (11,500 years B.C.) advocated in this book for the Phaeton disaster. (p. 183) Astronomers and astrophysicists, familiar with the near-endless succession of paroxysmal events occur- ring naturally throughout the universe during the birth, evolution and demise of galaxies, stars and sun- dry other cosmic bodies, concede that such events are of the astronomical norm. (p. 19) 168 Appendix B: Book Abstracts ...earthquakes...are hopelessly inadequate explanations for the collapse of ocean basins...(p. 265) The Flood Waters Erratic Boulders Celestial Pole Changes Reversed Polarity Astronomy and Astrophysics Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation