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would receive rain while rainforests would become deserts. mammoths grazed to a frozen wasteland. In his theory, Plant and animal life would need to adapt to the new Hapgood also explains the mountain-building forces as a conditions or become extinct. The evidence suggests as function of gravity. Although the forces that build a much. mountain are obviously complex, the principles are simple to Frozen deposits of soil, rock, plant and animal remains, explain. As an area of land moves towards the pole, because commonly known as muck, exist in Alaska. Professor Frank the radii and circumference of the Earth become shorter there Hibben of the University of New Mexico explains: "In many is less surface area in which to move. (The Arctic Circle and places, Alaskan muck is packed with equatorial circumferences differ by 13 animal bones and debris in trainload lots. miles.) Bones of mammoths, mastodons, several A surplus of surface exists, and this, kind of bison, horses, wolves, bears and being pulled down by gravity, must fold. lions tell a story of a faunal population ... Mountains are not being pushed up, but within this frozen mass lie the twisted the surface is being pulled down nearer to parts of animals and trees intermingled the Earth's core. The force of gravity with lenses of ice and layers of peat and over a large area folds the surface in a mosses. It looks as though in the midst small area to accommodate its new of some cataclysmic catastrophe of ten position on the globe. In the opposite thousand years ago the whole Alaskan direction, as land moves away from the world of living animals and plants was pole, it must expand. Major parallel suddenly frozen in mid-motion like a faults will occur with minor faults at right grim charade ... twisted and torn trees are angles. Where these faults occur, molten piled in splintered masses ... at least four rock from below fills up the crevasse. considerable layers of volcanic ash may ; According to Hapgood, the movements of be traced in these deposits, although they Pole shift land to and away from the equator over are extremely warped and distorted."'* 1. Yukon millions of years have produced the In southern California's La Brea tar mountain ranges we admire today.” pits, more than 565 species of animals 2. Greenland Sea were fossilised in the sticky tar (asphalt) 3. Hudson Bay The Galactic Superwave some 10,000 years ago. During the first 4, Current Location Still another, more recent, theory excavation in 1906, scientists found a explains that the global warming at the bone bed that contained over 700 sabre-toothed tiger skulls. end of the last ice age was a result of a cosmic phenomenon Combined with wolf skulls, they averaged 20 per cubic yard. known as a galactic superwave, proposed by physicist Dr There existed more bones than tar and were discovered Paul LaViolette. According to LaViolette, every 13,000 to "broken, mashed, contorted and mixed in a most 26,000 years the galaxy's core (the bulge where there exists heterogeneous mass",'’ nearly identical to the muck of Alaska. an immense number of stars) emits intense cosmic radiation.” One hundred thousand fossilised birds were also recovered This radiation, composed of high-energy electrons and representing over 138 species, 19 of electromagnetic radiation (from radio which are extinct. waves to X-rays and gamma rays), During the same period of time, sails out from the core of the galaxy in mammoths were being killed ina a "superwave" travelling near the similar fashion. John Massey speed of light. When the superwave Stewart, writing in the Smithsonian, finally reaches our solar system, some estimated that more than 500,000 tons 28,000 light years from the galactic of mammoth tusks were buried along core, it alters the behaviour of the Siberia's Arctic coastline. '* Several Sun. dozen frozen mammoth carcasses Our solar system is shrouded in have been found with the flesh still cosmic dust and debris, known as the intact, such as the Jarkov mammoth.” Oort cloud. According to LaViolette's They died suddenly, and found in theory, when the superwave passes their stomachs was undigested plant through this cloud it brings with it a matter that included grass, bluebells, large amount of dust, and when the wild beans and buttercups. Scientists Region Dense with dust reaches the Sun it serves as fuel have concluded that some of the Mammoth Remains for the Sun's furnace. As a result, mammoths died of asphyxiation, but solar flare activity increases and the in general the cause of death has not been determined. Sun's corona and photosphere increase in size—with drastic A shift of the North Pole from Hudson Bay to its current climatic effects for Earth. The increased solar activity would position in the Arctic Ocean would explain the mysterious cause a sudden period of warming for the Earth's climate. extinctions and mass burials that occurred at the end of the Furthermore, cosmic particles that entered the Earth's Pleistocene. During the time of the Hudson Bay pole, the atmosphere would be captured by the Earth's magnetic field northern Siberian coastline would have had the same latitude and form radiation belts in the upper atmosphere. In a single as Japan does today, far outside the Arctic Circle. But when day, the energy injected into the Earth's atmosphere would be the poles shifted, the climate would have rapidly changed equivalent to a billion-ton hydrogen bomb. These climatic within a matter of days from a summer savannah where effects would last for several thousand years. Pole shift 1. Yukon 2. Greenland Sea 3. Hudson Bay 4, Current Location 46 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com