Earth Crust Displacement and the British Establishment

by Kyle Bennett

Back in the 1950s, an American professor called Charles Hapgood proposed that the earth’s crust slides as a whole over the fluid layers below once every 40,000 years or so, causing the position of the geographic poles to wander – i.e. polar wandering. He thought this explained the pattern of Ice Ages and many other mysteries of this strange planet’s history.

But like many good ideas, most geologists...


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