Re: Pole Shifts vs Ice Ages (Revisited)

In Article: <3BBFA0D5.98840605@pushnopull.net> Pushenipol wrote:
> Does a compass show such thing ?

As does the crust itself, big time.  The crust shifts.  It does NOT get
a blob of ice on some part NOT a pole, when at the same time, at the
same lattitude, on the other side of the globe, the climate is
mysteriously warmer, as Thomas McDonald argued.  The crust shifts to
position that part of the crust at the pole, and later it shifts again
to move some other part of the crust to the pole. A quote from:

Earth in Upheaval, by Velikovsky
Chapter: Shifting Poles

    All other theories of the origin of the Ice Age having 
    failed, there remained an avenue of approach which 
    already early in the discussion was chosen by several 
    geologists:  a shift in the terrestrial poles.  If for some
    reason the poles had moved, old polar ice would have 
    moved out of the Arctic and Antarctic circles and into
    new regions.  The glacial cover of the Ice Age could 
    have been the polar icecap of an earlier epoch.  The 
    continent of Antarctica is larger than Europe.  It has 
    not a single tree, not a single bush, not a single blade 
    of grass.  Very few fungi have been found.  Storms of
    great velocity circle the Antarctic most of the year.  
    E.H. Shackleton, during his expedition to Antarctica
    in 1907 found fossil wood in the sandstone.  Then he 
    discovered 7 seams of coal.  The seams are each 
    between 3 and 7 feet thick.  Associated with the coal
    is sandstone containing coniferous wood. Spitsbergen
    in the Arctic Ocean is as far north from Oslo in 
    Norway as Oslo is from Naples.  Heer identified 136 
    species of fossil plants from Spitsbergen.  Among the
    plants were pines, firs, spruces, and cypresses, also 
    elms, hazels, and water lilies.  At the northernmost 
    tip of Spitsbergen Archipelago, a bed of black and 
    lustrous coal 25 to 30 feet thick was found.  
    [Spitsbergen] is buried in darkness for half the year
    and is now almost continuously buried under snow 
    and ice.  At some time in the remote past corals grew
    and are still found on the entire fringe of polar North
    America - in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.  In 
    later times fig palms bloomed within the Arctic Circle.