Re: OK Nancy, Where Is It?

Earth in Upheaval, The Ivory Islands, by Velikovsky

    Fossil tusks of the mammoth - an extinct elephant - 
    were found in northern Siberia and brought southward 
    to markets at a very early time. Northern Siberia 
    provided more than half the world's supply of ivory, 
    many piano keys and many billiard balls being made
    from the fossil tusks of mammoths. In 1797 the body
    of a mammoth, with flesh, skin, and hair, was found
    in northeastern Siberia. The flesh had the 
    appearance of freshly frozen beef; it was edible, and
    wolves and sled dogs fed on it without harm. The 
    ground must have been frozen ever since the day of 
    their entombment; had it not been frozen, the bodies 
    of the mammoths would have putrefied in a single 
    summer, but they remained unspoiled for some 
    thousands of years. In some mammoths, when 
    discovered, even the eyeballs were still preserved.
    [All] this shows that the cold became suddenly 
    extreme .. and knew no relenting afterward. In the
    stomachs and between the teeth of the mammoths
    were found plants and grasses that do not grow 
    now in northern Siberia .. [but are] .. now found 
    in southern Siberia. Microscopic examination of
    the skin showed red blood corpuscles, which
    was proof not only of a sudden death, but that the 
    death was due to suffocation either by gases or 
    water.

Raising the Mammoth, Discovery Channel, 12 Mar 2000

    Last October, amid the bitterness of the Siberian 
    tundra, the carcass of a male woolly mammoth 
    was lifted out of the ground where it had been 
    frozen for more than 23,000 years. Soon scientists
    hope to begin searching that long-dead body for 
    clues of an ancient world. The effort of the team 
    led by French explorer Bernard Buigues to dig out
    the frozen block of earth containing the mammoth,
    then carry it almost 300 kilometers by a giant 
    helicopter, was only a first step. After spending 
    the winter above ground, the huge chunk of tundra
    and mammoth will soon be moved inside an ice 
    cave in Khatanga, Siberia. There, a group of 
    scientists will slowly begin thawing small
    sections of the animal and permafrost to look 
    back into the world in which mammoths lived.

Intact Mammoth to be Carved from Siberian Tundra
Reuters, 23 Jul 1999

    An adult woolly mammoth mummified 23,000 
    years ago under Siberia's frozen tundra will be dug 
    out of the permafrost and may one day be cloned, 
    an international team of scientists said on Thursday.
    In a scenario worthy of the fictional, cloned 
    dinosaurs in the "Jurassic Park" movies, French 
    explorer Bernard Buigues said the intact soft tissues 
    and the hair of the Jarkov mammoth held out the 
    possibility of recovering intact DNA. "It will be
    interesting to know the habits of this animal and 
    what he was doing in this place that was a very 
    difficult place to live," Buigues said in a 
    teleconference with reporters from southwestern 
    South Dakota, a center for fossil finds. "In the 
    pictures we have, you see all the kinds of hair that
    the mammoth has. The colour is intact," said 
    Buigues, who is affiliated with the National 
    History Museum of France. "The smell of the 
    skin is also there."  ... This adult specimen is 
    different from others found in Siberia and 
    elsewhere because scientists will be able to
    examine grass and other flora that were preserved
    with it, and possibly recover organs and even 
    sperm. Many of the plants mammoths were 
    known to eat on the mountainous steppes of 
    what is now the North American Rocky
    Mountains and Siberia are known to still exist, 
    but the mystery of the mammoth's extinction 
    persists, the scientists said. "In general, we 
    know a lot about the woolly mammoth from 
    (mostly skeletal) specimens found in France,
    Spain and Russia," said Dick Mol, another 
    member of the team who is affiliated with the 
    Natuurmuseum in the Netherlands. "If we can 
    find more material of the woolly mammoth, 
    including soft parts such as the ears and the
    tail, we can learn much more," he said.

Q: How is it that grasslands and the herbivors munching on them were
frozen solid, with no melting afterwards, as through the crust from
southern siberia had been moved suddenly into the polar circle?