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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Chapter 51

The Hammer and the Pendulum

Although beyond the scope of this book, a detailed exposition of the
earth-crust displacement theory is to be found in Rand and Rose Flem-
Ath’s When the Sky Fell (published by Stoddart, Canada, 1995).
As noted, this geological theory was formulated by Professor Charles
Hapgood and supported by Albert Einstein. In brief, what it suggests is a
complete slippage of our planet’s thirty-mile-thick lithosphere over its
nearly 8000-mile-thick central core, forcing large parts of the western
hemisphere southward towards the equator and thence towards the
Antarctic Circle. This movement is not seen as taking place along a due
north-south meridian but on a swivelling course—pivoting, as it were,
around the central plains of what is now the United States. The result is
that the north-eastern segment of North America (in which the North Pole
was formerly located in Hudson’s Bay) is dragged southwards out of the
Arctic Circle and into more temperate latitudes while at the same time the
north-western segment (Alaska and the Yukon) swivels northwards into
the Arctic Circle along with large parts of northern Siberia.
In the southern hemisphere, Hapgood’s model shows the landmass that
we now call Antarctica, much of which was previously at temperate or
even warm latitudes, being shifted in its entirety inside the Antarctic
Circle. The overall movement is seen as having been in the region of 30
degrees (approximately 2000 miles) and as having been concentrated, in
the main, between the years 14,500 BC and 12,500 BC—but with massive
aftershocks on a planetary scale continuing at widely-separated intervals
down to about 9500 BC.

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