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Crustal Dispacement

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There is a new theory, that I have discovered; crustal displacement. It would explain a lot of things. The theory is that the earth’s crust was displaced, about 10-15,000 years ago. Originally North America was covered in ice, and Antarctica was situated in the temperate region. South America was situated in a more temperate region than it is today. Siberia was also situated in a warm temperate region. Hence, after the displacement, which was rapid, Siberia was displaced into the arctic region, and the mammoths froze. The ice covering of North America thawed out and this caused a rise in global sea levels. Antarctica began to freeze over, and slowly acquired its ice cover. This would explain why South America has megalithic structures, but not North America, as North America was previously permanently covered in ice. England was on the border with the northern ice sheet.
Graham Hancock was talking about this theory, and it makes sense to me. YECs have provided no explanation for why the mammoths froze. Hancock believes that Atlantis was located in Antarctica, and megalithic structures would be found now under the ice. This ancient civilisation would have needed to have built accurate clocks, as that is needed to work out longitude, and the creations of the maps, which show Antarctica free of ice.
This civilisation might have been wiped out by a mass coronal ejection from the sun. I don’t think it is likely that they were wiped out by a flood, as the various megalithic sites around the world are free of sediment deposits. I have always understood that fossil deposits contain one group of animals, such as dinosaurs in one deposit, and fish and sea life in another, and not a big mix up of modern mammals and dinosaurs, which is what you would expect if the YEC model is true. So I am moving towards the standard mainstream geology of the earth, as an explanation for how and why the earth is as it is.
 

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It is not new. The idea was older than half-a-Century.

Similar to the idea of continental drift in early 20th Century, some earth scientists felt the need of such a model, but had trouble to find a mechanism for it. However, without such a dramatic model, many geological questions could not be answered.
 
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Sudden crustal displacement has long been discredited, however long-term crustal displacement seems to have actually taken place at least once before. Earlier in earth's history about 800 million years ago (if I recall correctly) the crust shifted, though the process took millions of years.

Which is why the whole crustal displacement thing concerning the Mayan "end times" hype was implausible hokum.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Sudden crustal displacement has long been discredited, however long-term crustal displacement seems to have actually taken place at least once before. Earlier in earth's history about 800 million years ago (if I recall correctly) the crust shifted, though the process took millions of years.

Which is why the whole crustal displacement thing concerning the Mayan "end times" hype was implausible hokum.

-CryptoLutheran

How was that different from what is happening now?
 
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How was that different from what is happening now?

You mean continental drift? The difference is that crustal displacement refers to the entire crust more-or-less shifting uniformly, continental drift refers the movement of continental plates.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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You mean continental drift? The difference is that crustal displacement refers to the entire crust more-or-less shifting uniformly, continental drift refers the movement of continental plates.

-CryptoLutheran

How do we know that happened about 800 m.y. ago?
 
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