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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Section through the earth. The crustal displacement theory envisages
the possibility of periodic displacements of the entire crust in one
piece. Often less than 30 miles thick, the crust rests on a lubricating
layer known as the asthenosphere.

Gravitational influences

The first of these was the possibility that gravitational influences (as well
as the variations in the earth’s orbital geometry discussed in Part V)
might, through the mechanism of earth-crust displacement, play a role in
the onset and decline of Ice Ages:

When the naturalist and geologist Louis Agassiz presented the idea of ice ages to
the scientific community in 1837 he was met with great skepticism. However, as
evidence slowly gathered in his favour, the skeptics were forced to accept that the
earth had indeed been gripped by deadly winters. But the trigger of these
paralysing ice ages remained a puzzle. It was not until 1976 that solid evidence
existed to establish the timing of ice ages. The explanation was found in various
astronomical features of the earth’s orbit and the tilt of the axis. Astronomical
factors have clearly played a role in the timing of glacial epochs. But this is only
part of the problem. Of equal importance is the geography of glaciation. It is here
that the theory of earth-crust displacement plays its role in unravelling the

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