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2008-01-06
ANCIENT POLE SHIFTSPaleomagnetic Evidence That May
Support Two Cayce Readings
On Former Pole Shifts
Summary Two
Cayce readings indicate that shifts of the poles of
Earth's spin-axis were responsible for ancient global geographies quite
different from today's. THC has found scientific evidence that may
support such pole shifts. We say "may" because, while the scientific
paleomagnetic evidence clearly supports shifts in excursions of Earth's
magnetic field, not all scientists would agree that such excursions
would necessarily coincide with shifts in the poles of the spin-axis.
Will
another pole shift predicted in Cayce readings 3976-15 and
378-16 occur soon? If so, the two ancient pole shifts described in the
Cayce readings will be validated. And a great deal of what is assumed
to be known about Earth dynamics and historical geology will have to be
rewritten by the geologists of the coming generation.
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Introduction |
A
sudden shift in the poles of Earth's rotational axis would
be the most exceptional geological event of the past several thousand years. And, of all the world's
natural
scientists,
geologists would be the most dumb-struck if a pole shift occurred. This
is so because most all
geologists think
that our planet's crustal features got that way according to the
prevailing plate-tectonics and sea-floor-spreading hypothesis.
A
pole-shift-powered change in Earth's topography, and in its
land-and-sea
boundaries, is not
considered to be possible, even though it can be shown hypothetically
to transform global geography and geomorphology quickly and
efficiently. Should the Earth soon
experience a pole shift, future generations of geologists will be
occupied in rewriting the evolution of our planet's surface features.
The basis of a fundamental new model of Earth changes by pole shift
will involve both horizontal and vertical crustal
motions, not just the essentially horizontal sea-floor spreading
construct. Such a model will explain the
pulse of the Earth through times past.
People
interested in Edgar
Cayce's psychic readings want to know more about the
coming pole shift
predicted in reading 3976-15, inferred by THC to begin any day now.
Timing of the shift
of the poles was
hinted at in the following reading.
In the record chambers {in Egypt around 10,500 years BC} there were more ceremonies than in calling the peoples at the finishing of that called the pyramid. For, here those that were trained in the Temple of Sacrifice as well as in the Temple Beautiful were about the sealing of the record chambers. For, these were to be kept as had been given by the priests in Atlantis or Poseidia (Temple), when these records of the race, of the developments, of the laws pertaining to One were put in their chambers and to be opened only when there was the returning of those into materiality, or to earth's experience, when the change was imminent in the earth; which change, we see, begins in '58 and ends with the changes wrought in the upheavals and the shifting of the poles, as begins then the reign in '98 (as time is counted in the present) of those influences that have been given by many in the records that have been kept by those sojourners in this land of the Semitic peoples.
(378-16; October 29,1933)
But the the very idea of a sudden shifting of the poles
finds no place in today's geology text books. And so, we thought it
might be useful to examine the geological literature for any evidence
of ancient pole shifts. Indeed, to entertain such a notion,we chose at random a scientific study as one of
the best
ways to indicate how much better it would have been if a pole-shift
explanation
of the study's geological findings was invoked to explain them, rather
than the plate-tectonics model offered by today's geologists.
Here is a description of the chosen study, complete with THC's
editorial
comments shown in red.
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Prehistoric reptiles
in the balmy Canadian Arctic
Tamar Simon
December 21, 1998
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You think we've had a mild winter
so far? Well, a fossil discovery in the Canadian high Arctic shows that
this is nothing. After finding the bones of a prehistoric,
cold-blooded reptile called champsosaur
near the North Pole, scientists are rethinking their theories on the
Earth's climate 90 million years ago -- and turning up the heat.
The fossils were found in the
summer of 1996 on Axel Heiberg Island by
a team led by geophysicist John Tarduno of the University of Rochester.
The Canadian island lies within the Arctic Circle, just over 1100
kilometres from the North Pole, and on a day like today would likely
experience temperatures of 30 to 40 degrees below zero Celsius. But
according to Tarduno, the discovery of the bones -- including tibia,
vertebrae, femur and jaw bones from several different champsosaurs --
shows that the now-chilly north once had a climate more conducive to
building that backyard pool.
"It's surprising
and extremely interesting," Tarduno says. "It's something of a puzzle." It's no
puzzle at all, if one accepts the pole shift explanation in which the
north pole suddenly shifts from the cold arctic to the equatorial zone.
The first
piece of the puzzle was uncovered when Tarduno took his team
of students up to Axel Heiberg to take samples of hardened, unusually
thick volcanic rock on the island. "The lava flows [found there] are
ten metres thick, ten times the thickness of flows today," Tarduno
explains. "That represents extremely vigorous volcanic activity." Such "extremely vigorous volcanic activity" sounds
very much like the "upheavals in the arctic..." mentioned in
Cayce reading 3976-15, as preceding a coming shift in the poles of
Earth's rotational axis.
While on the
island, the team found transitional rock right on top of
the lava and below some marine rock -- a type of sediment ideal for
preserving fossils. The "transitional rock"
could have been laid down during the pole shift.
"I bet the students we'd find
fossils," Tarduno recalls. "Within five
minutes one of my students pulled up a femur and said, 'Like this?'"
The bones were
then given to Donald Brinkman, the vertebrae
paleontologist at Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum, for analysis. It
turned out to be an easy I.D.: the champsosaur, a well-studied
crocodile-like reptile with a long snout, lots of teeth, well-developed
limbs and a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Champsosaurs lived in the late
Cretaceous period 92 to 86 million years ago, just at the end of the
dinosaur period. The Axel Heiberg champsosaur was large -- over two
metres long.
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Champsosaur |
But while
champsosaur fossils have been found in
Asia and North America, they have never been found this far north. And
that's where the mystery lies -- because, as Brinkman puts it, the
average Axel Heiberg temperature is "cold!"
"This is an ectothermic reptile,"
Brinkman explains. "Dinosaurs could
generate heat to control body temperature, but this wouldn't have been
able to." Therefore, because after pole
shift Axel Heiberg was transported to a tropical realm, the new
environment was suitable for champsosaurs.
Therefore, for a
champsosaur population to survive on the island, the
mean annual temperatures in the high Arctic during the late Cretaceous
period must have been about 14 degrees Celsius -- much warmer than the
zero degree mean previously assumed. But according to Tarduno,
adjusting our view of late Cretaceous Earth to include a high Arctic
that feels like present-day North Carolina throws all our assumptions
about global climate into turmoil.
"When we think of
global
climate, we look at the [North and South] poles to equator gradient,"
Tarduno explains. "This fossil evidence shows that the [assumed] mean
annual Arctic temperature of zero degrees couldn't have been. But if
the near polar climate was warm, the entire Earth would be warmer than
previously thought."
"It's interesting for climate
modelers," he adds. "Polar regions are
extremely important to determing how the whole global climate works.
How did the equator not overheat?" Because, due to pole shift,
what was once a polar region was now in the tropics.
While continental
shifts (he's
invoking the plate-tectonics, sea-floor spreading hypothesis here) might mean Axel Heiberg was
farther south 90
million years ago, Tarduno and Brinkman say it would still have been
above sixty degrees latitude, in what is considered high Arctic. They
say that the new evidence suggests that there was probably a lesser
range of global temperatures from the equator to the poles than was
previously thought. They also say that the fossils show there may have
been a Cretaceous "greenhouse effect" caused by all the volcanic
activity.
"We can't avoid the
fact that these fossils are sitting right on top of
this extremely large volcanic eruption," Tarduno says. "It's very
reasonable to suggest that so much CO2 was dumped into the atmosphere
that it overwhelmed the system, causing global warming."Tarduno hopes to
return to the Arctic this summer to look at different
localities in the same latitude, to look for other evidence of the
prehistoric climate. In the meantime his study, co-authored by
Brinkman, Paul Renne of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and Pat
Castillo of the Scripps Insitute of Oceanography, can be read in this
week's issue of the journal Science. |
Cayce Readings That Indicate Ancient Pole Shifts
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Here are the portions of readings 364-13 and 364-4 that imply ancient
pole shifts during intervals of 1) Miocene and 2) Late-Pleistocene
times. References to
global geographic changes resulting from pole shift(s) in each of the
two
different time intervals are highlighted in bold font.
Our lead-in to the first, Miocene-age time interval of reading 364-13,
is found in a different reading, number 5748-2 (May 28, 1925).
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Now,
as we see, as given, how and what the classifications were of the
physical in the earth's plane at that period, the numbers then of human
souls in the earth plane being a hundred and thirty and three million
(133,000,000) souls. The beginning then of the understanding of laws
as applied from man's viewpoint being in this second rule in the
country now Egypt. The rule covering the period of a hundred and
ninety and nine (199) years, and the entity giving the chance to the
peoples, for the study being in the twenty and eighth (28th) year, when
[he] began to gather the peoples together for this and surrounding
himself with those of that land and of the various lands wherein the
human life dwelled at that period. The numbers of the people that came
together for the purpose then numbering some forty and four (44).
The Courts as were made were in the tents and the caves of the dwellers
of the then chosen priest from the Arabian or Tibetan country, who came
as one among those to assist with the astrologer and the soothsayers of
the desert of now the eastern and western worlds, and with this the
conclave was held for many, many, moons. The period in the world's
existence from the present time being ten and one-half million
(10,500,000) years, and the changes that have come in the earth's
plane many have risen in the lands. Many lands have disappeared, many
have appeared and disappeared again and again during these periods,
gradually changing as the condition became to the relative position of
the earth with the other spheres through which man passes in this solar
system. (5748-2)
[Ed.
note: Such
Earth changes could easily have come about as a result of the shifting
of
Earth's spin-axis poles. See Part 3 of THC's book, "Earth's
Catastrophic Past and Future."] |
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| We continue now with the reading that speaks about
Miocene-age times. |
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Q) Did the appearance of what became
the five races occur simultaneously?
(A) Occurred at once.
(Q) Describe the earth's surface at the period of the appearance of
the five projections.
(A) This has been given. In the first, or that known as the
beginning, or in the Caucasian and Carpathian, or the Garden of Eden,
in that land which lies now much in the desert, yet much in mountain
and much in the rolling lands there.
The extreme northern portions
were then the southern portions, or the polar regions were then turned
to where they occupied more of the tropical and semi-tropical regions;
hence it would be hard to discern or disseminate the change. [This geography is certainly a
result of pole shift(s)].
The
Nile entered into the Atlantic Ocean. What is now the Sahara was an
inhabited land and very fertile. What is now the central portion of
this country, or the Mississippi basin, was then all in the ocean; only
the plateau was existent, or the regions that are now portions of
Nevada, Utah and Arizona formed the greater part of what we know as the
United States. That along the Atlantic board formed the outer portion
then, or the lowlands of Atlantis. The Andean, or the Pacific coast of
South America, occupied then the extreme western portion of Lemuria.
The Urals and the northern regions of same were turned into a tropical
land. The desert in the Mongolian land was then the fertile portion.
This may enable you to form SOME concept of the status of the earth's
representations at that time! The oceans were then turned about; they
no longer bear their names, yet from whence obtained they their names?
What is the legend, even, as to their names?
(364-13;
November 17, 1932)
Now here is the
second of the two readings from which THC infers that pole-shift(s) occurred, over a 200,000 year period at the end of the
Pleistocene and
Holocene
epochs. (The Pleistocene itself was 1.8
million years long. The 200,000-year interval mentioned in the reading
below includes the most
recent 10,000-year-long Holocene epoch.) The pole-shift geography
described
in bold below is said to
have existed during the greater part of the 200,000-year
interval.
(Q) Please give a description of the earth's
surface as it existed at the time of Atlantis' highest civilization,
using the names of continents, oceans and sections of same as we know
them today?
(A) As to the highest point of civilization, this would first have to
be determined according to the standard as to which it would be judged
- as to whether the highest point was when Amilius [?] ruled with those
understandings, as the one that understood the variations, or whether
they became man made, would depend upon whether we are viewing from a
spiritual standpoint or upon that as a purely material or commercial
standpoint; for the variations, as we find, extend over a period of
some two hundred thousand years (200,000) - that is, as light years -
as known in the present - and that there were MANY changes in the
surface of what is now called the earth. In the first, or greater
portion, we find that NOW known as the southern portions of South
America * in the Arctic or North
Arctic regions, while those in what is
NOW as Siberia - or that as of Hudson Bay - was rather in that region
of the tropics, or that position now occupied by near what would be as
the same LINE would run, of the southern Pacific, or central Pacific
regions - and about the same way. Then we find, with this change that
came first in that portion, when the first of those peoples used that
as prepared FOR the changes in the earth, we stood near the same
position as the earth occupies in the present - as to Capricorn, or the
equator, or the poles. Then, with that portion, THEN the South
Pacific, or Lemuria [?], began its disappearance - even before
Atlantis, for the changes were brought about in the latter portion of
that period, or what would be termed ten thousand seven hundred
(10,700) light years, or earth years, or present setting of those, as
set by Amilius [?] - or Adam.
We are through for the present.
(364-4; February 21,
1933)
*The word "and" in the
original stenographic record makes no sense
here. It has been deleted and the word "in" has been substituted for
it.
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Is
there any scientific evidence for the
readings'-inferred shifts of the poles of Earth's spin axis? Three
studies were
found. There are probably a few more.
The first was a study published
in 1961 in the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. It is titled, Remanent
Magnetism in Silts of Pleistocene Age From North America.
A second, published in Boreas in March 2001, is titled Palaeomagnetism
of the Moberly formation, northern Missouri, confirms a regional
magnetic datum within the pre-Illinoian glacial sequence of the
midcontental USA.
The third is one found in the Proceedings of the Ocean
Drilling
Program
reports.
We'll discuss the implications of each of these studies
below. But first, a few words about paleomagnetism and its uses. |
Paleomagnetism of Volcanic and
Sedimentary Rocks Paleomagnetism refers to the study of natural, residual
magnetism of rocks and sediments to determine the
intensities and directions of the Earth's magnetic field in the
geologic past. The direction of the north pole of the Earth's magnetic
field can be determined by measuring the mass orientation of magnetic
grains present in oriented field samples brought into the
laboratory. The result of a given determination of the ancient
magnetic field may be used to infer the former direction of the ancient
north pole of the Earth's spin axis at the time that lava cooled below
the Curie point (temperature at which liquid lava solidifies), or the
time at
which magnetic grains in a sediment were deposited and consolidated.
The resulting direction of the Earth's magnetic field determined
assumes that the magnetic north pole as measured lies in reasonably
close
proximity to the north pole of our planet's rotational axis. This is a
reasonable assumption, geologists would agree, and could be
accepted to hold true in the past as well. But few geologists will
take that step when interpreting their paleomagnetic data.
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Paleomagnetic Study of Silt Samples
at the Margin of the Illinoian-Age
Continental Ice Sheet in South-Central Indiana
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The abstract of the 1961
paper says the following:
Remanent
magnetizations of 64 silt specimens of Kansan,
Illinoian,
Sangamon, and Wisconsin age are reported. All, except some of the
Illinoian specimens, are apparently normally magnetized. The primary
magnetic fabrics of the Kansan, Sangamon, and Wisconsin specimens may
have been deformed slightly by the consolidating effects of overriding
Pleistocene ice sheets. Twenty-two specimens from the basal part of an
Illinoian-age glaciolacustrine silt display a confusion of
north-magnetic-pole plots, 21 of the plots lying between latitudes 18°S
to 88°N and longitudes 7° to 176°W. This apparent confusion of the
magnetic field corresponds to the time of the Illinoian glacial maximum
in southern Indiana. Nine specimens from the upper part of the
Illinoian silt unit, representative of post-glacial-maximum time, are
normally magnetized.
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TABLE 1.-Magnetic-north-pole positions
obtained from remanent magnetizations of specimens of silts of
Pleistocene age from North America
Footnotes are to studies that give stratigraphy and (or) sedimentation
at sampling localities.
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Stratigraphic Position
(1)
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No.
Loc.
(2)
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No.
Spec.
(3)
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Pole Positions
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Lat.
(4)
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Long.
(4)
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| Wisconsin |
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V
E
R
T
I
C
A
L
S
A
M
P
L
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N
G
P
R
O
F
I
L
E
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(5)
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(6)
Pole Positions
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Spec. No.
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Lat.
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Long.
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22
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18S
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86W
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21
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12N
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148W
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20
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20N
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145W
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19
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8S
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74W
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18
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1N
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176W
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17
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48N
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96W
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16
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4N
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152W
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15
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50N
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145W
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14
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4N
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7W
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13
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88N
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156W
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12
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35N
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81W
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11
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80N
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88W
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10
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0
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77W
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9
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80N
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150E
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8
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24N
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71W
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7
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61N
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141W
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6
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4N
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84W
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5
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45N
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156W
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4
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20N
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42W
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3
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36N
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107W
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2
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46N
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41W
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1
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31N
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173W
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Glacial maximum1 |
1
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5
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56N
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138E
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Scarborough beds2 |
2
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11
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73N
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35E
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| Sangamon: |
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Upper Don beds3 |
1
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2
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69N
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175E
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Middle Don beds3 |
1
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2
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69N
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175E
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Basal Don beds3 |
1
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5
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84N
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170W
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| Illinoian: |
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Post glacial maximum4 |
1
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9
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71N
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33W
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Glacial maximum5 |
2
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22
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31N
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112W
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| Kansan: |
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Preglacial maximum6 |
2
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6
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64N
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57E
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Early alluvium7
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1
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2
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80N
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65E
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- Harrison, 1958, table 1, no. 6, and appendix, no. 6; also,
Harrison, in preparation.
- Terasmae, unpublished studies; (specimens from basal 1.0
meter).
- Coleman, 1914, 1933.
- Wayne, 1958, p. 12, units 7 and 8; (3 specimens taken along
one bed are in agreement).
- Wayne, 1958, p. 12, unit 4, (basal 0.6 meter).
- Wayne, 1958, p. 10, unit 3; (3 specimens taken along one
bed are in agreement).
- Horberg, 1956, appendix, no. 13; (change location to NW1/4
SE1/4 of section).
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Table 1
indicates that the average magnetic field at the time of the maximum
extent of the Illinoian-age ice sheet in south-central Indiana was
oriented toward
31N latitude and 122W longitude. This seems to make sense if one is
looking for an explanation as to why the Illinoian ice sheet reached so
far south. (See the green pattern below.)
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The Illinoian-age silt samples of Table 1 were taken where the white
pattern intrudes into the green pattern, in south-central Indiana.
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Climatologically, the ice sheet would have been responding
to a north pole of our planet's spin-axis located in the general
vicinity of present-day San Angelo, Texas. But this would only be true
if the north pole of Earth's spin-axis had tracked the north pole of the Earth's
magnetic-field pole at that time.Geologists may wish to read the entire paper related to Table 1 here.
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Paleomagnetic Study of Largely Till
Samples
From Northern Missouri
Here
is the abstract for the paper authored by C. W. Rovey II and W. F. Kean.
The
Moberly formation of northern Missouri, USA includes glacigenic
sediment deposited during the second major pre-Illinoian glaciation and
is overlain by three younger normal-polarity tills. The Moberly (mostly
till) preserves two different magnetic remanences. A detrital remanent
magnetization has reversed polarity with shallow (-30 to-40°)
inclinations. The shallow inclination is regionally persistent and
spans different facies, including those not prone to large inclination
error. A secondary overprint of normal polarity is associated with a
thin oxidized zone and weakly developed paleosol in the upper portion
of the till. This chemical remanent magnetization is distinguished by
high coercivities typical of authigenic ferromagnetic minerals and by
scattered remanence vectors upon stepwise demagnetization. The
secondary normal remanence was likely acquired during a brief
interglacial period between deposition of the Moberly formation and the
next glaciation. The short interglacial and the shallow inclinations
indicate that the glaciation which deposited the Moberly occurred
shortly before a major polarity change from reverse to normal, probably
the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal.
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If the reversed magnetic polarity
found correlates with a reversal of the pole of Earth's axis of
rotation, then there could have been the global geography described in
reading 364-13.
The extreme northern portions
were then the southern portions, or the polar regions were then turned
to where they occupied more of the tropical and semi-tropical regions;
hence it would be hard to discern or disseminate the change. |
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Flood, R.D., Piper, D.J.W., Klaus, A.,
and
Peterson, L.C. (Eds.), 1997.
Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 155 231
12. AN EXAMINATION OF THE PALEOINTENSITY
RECORD AND GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSIONS RECORDED IN LEG 155 CORES
Stanley M. Cisowski and Frank R. Hall
ABSTRACT
The normalization of
the natural remanent magnetism to laboratory-induced remanence for
discrete samples from the top 54 m of Hole 932A produces a pattern
similar to the apparent variation of the geomagnetic dipole intensity
for the period 10-80 ka. Similar patterns in the shipboard archive-half
intensity measurements for several other holes suggest that a
paleointensity stratigraphy can be employed to date Leg 155 fan
sediments. Two short intervals of anomalous field directions, or
excursions of the geomagnetic field, have been identified in Hole 932A,
at ages of ~32 ka and ~43 ka, as determined from their positions within
the intensity pattern. The younger excursion, which has been
identified in nine Leg 155 holes, is best defined by discrete samples
from Hole 930B. This excursion, which may correspond to the Lake Mungo
Excursion, as recorded in aboriginal firepits in Australia, and
sediment cores from the Gulf of Mexico, is characterized by short-lived (~40 yr) synchronous
peaks in inclination
and intensity. The older Hole 932A excursion probably represents
the Laschamp Excursion. Discrete sample analyses for Holes 942C and
946A revealed two other anomalous polarity intervals within
interglacial Stage 5. The younger excursion is associated with an
interglacial carbonate layer representing Substage 5c. The older
interval includes several short periods during which the field was
nearly reversed, and may represent the Blake polarity event within
Substage 5e.
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Here
we read that two short intervals, one of which might have been of only
40 years duration, were identified in Hole 930B. Other short intervals
of magnetic excursions were identified in Hole 932A at 32,000 and
43,000 years before the present. Assuming once again that these
magnetic excursions could equate to short shifts of Earth's spin axis,
we could postulate that Cayce reading 5728-2 above might just explain
the following picture. Only pole shifts could be the intermediate
mechanism that could have caused the lands spoken of to have "appeared
and
disappeared again and again."
..the
changes that have come in the earth's
plane many have risen in the lands. Many lands have disappeared, many
have appeared and disappeared again and again during these periods,
gradually changing as the condition became to the relative position of
the earth with the other spheres through which man passes in this solar
system.
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Conclusion
Paleomagnetic studies of volcanic rocks and clastic sediments are
becoming more prevalent in the scientific literature. Interpretations
of extreme excursions of ancient magnetic fields - when these are
noticed - stop short of linking them to shifts in the poles of Earth's
axis of rotation. This lack of follow-through seems to be related to a
need on the part of researchers not to contradict the prevailing
plate-tectonics hypothesis, when it comes to explaining our planet's
geomorphology and associated geodynamics. This hypothesis, which
currently holds sway amongst conformist geologists, will need to be
modified comprehensively if and when the Earth
experiences the coming pole shift mentioned in two Cayce readings
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I wish to thank Norman Scherer and Jonathan Eagle
for their assistance
in the finding of references and in formatting this article for
posting, respectively.
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