Charles Ginenthal in his paper on ice core evidence explained that summer melt and the deposition of thousands of layers during chaotic eras totally falsify the year per layer paradigm on which this theory is built. He contends that ocean core and bore hole results contradict the ice core data.
Antarctica
a tr o pical paradise ? Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet up to 5km thick - the distance from the Mornington Yacht Club to the cliffs at Mt Martha. It is the coldest place on Earth. It is amazingly the driest desert on Earth, with snow only falling around its wind-blasted boundaries. But it was not always so cold and remote. Geologist Molly Miller, of Vanderbilt University, discovered in the Beardmore Glacier area of Antarctica the remains of three ancient deciduous forests, complete with fossils of fallen leafs scattered around the petrified tree stumps. These trees are alive today but only grow in warm, moist areas such as Queensland. Antarctic also harbours bones of extinct marsupials and dinosaurs, with massive coal beds full of once flourishing flora and fauna. When did this fabulous age exist, and more importantly what caused the dramatic change? It must have been a sudden and dramatic change for there are no intermediate phases with changing vegetation patterns. And how did a 5km ice sheet develop inland in Antarctica where there is little snow or precipitation? These are impossible questions that modern geology struggles to answer. Did continental drift bring Antarctica to the poles, or was it a shift in the Earth’s axis that not only caused the death of the tropical rainforests but placed a massive ice sheet on the continent? And when did this occur? Classic geology would have you believe this ice sheet to have been in existence for millions of years. Two powerful facts totally contradict this. One is the existence of two ancient maps, the Piri Reis and the Oronteus Finaeus maps, both hoary with antiquity. Incredibly they show Antarctica ice-free. These maps are reckoned to have their source in the 2000-year-old libraries of ancient Alexandria. This would mean Antarctica may
have been navigable in the not-too-distant past, perhaps in the time of the pharaohs. Are these maps believable? Professor Charles Hapgood submitted them to the US Air Force’s cartography section for evaluation. Lieutenant Colonel Ohlmeyer replied that not only were they accurate, but “this indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice cap. The ice cap in this region is now about a mile thick .We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge of this era” (www. ancientdestructions.com). We have a second line of evidence for a recent ice-free Antarctica: the controversial ice core experiments. In Greenland and Antarctica are laboratories that bore through the ice to collect data on the layers of ice. Eventually they hit rock bottom. In the case of Greenland they hit plant remains. Each layer contains volcanic dust and certain isotopes such as carbon14 and oxygen18 that reveal data on the nature of the climate in distant eras. For instance, it is claimed they clearly show the profile of the medieval warming 1000 years ago, when the temperatures of the Earth exceeded those of today. But if each layer represents a year then Antarctica’s 140,000 layers are not millions of years old as conventional geology claims. But even more controversial,
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All getting a bit complex? What it means is the ice sheet is not millions of years old and could have been laid down rapidly within a short time. This could have happened as recently as 6000 years ago, at the time of the pharaohs. The rapidity of the event is supported by the fossilisation of the ancient tree forests Molly Miller discovered. Fossilisation is a process that usually only occurs in catastrophic circumstances, such as comet discharge, extreme mass coronal ejections or disturbed planetary motions resulting in magnetic field reversal. Could this scenario happen again? In the making is the film Antarctica, Once a Tropical Paradise, in which I will examine the evidence in detail. Peter Mungo Jupp
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