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Charles Hutchins Hapgood (May 17, 1904 – December 21, 1982) [ 1 ] was an American college professor and author who became one of the best known advocates of the pseudo-scientific claim of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results.
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesisis a pseudo-scientificclaim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotationof Earth, causing calamities such as floods and tectonic events[1]or relatively rapid climate changes. There is evidence of precessionand changes in axial tilt, but this change is on much longer time ...
Hapgood's claims have been uncritically repeated by Erich von Däniken in support of ancient astronauts and by Graham Hancock in support of an advanced lost civilization. The map and polar shift were key plot elements in Allan W. Eckert's science fiction novel The HAB Theory. [126] [127] Piri Reis is a character in the Assassin's Creed franchise.
ISBN. 978-0-517-88729-5. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization is a 1995 pseudoarcheology [ 1 ][ 2 ] book by British writer Graham Hancock, which contends that an advanced civilization existed in prehistory, one which served as the common progenitor civilization to all subsequent known ancient historical ones.
Geomagnetic polarity during the last 5 million years (Pliocene and Quaternary, late Cenozoic Era). Dark areas denote periods where the polarity matches today's normal polarity; light areas denote periods where that polarity is reversed. A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's dipole magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic ...
Paleomagnetism (occasionally palaeomagnetism) is the study of prehistoric Earth's magnetic fields recorded in rocks, sediment, or archeological materials. Geophysicists who specialize in paleomagnetism are called paleomagnetists. Certain magnetic minerals in rocks can record the direction and intensity of Earth's magnetic field at the time they ...
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in telegraph stations. [1]
Milankovitch studied changes in these movements of the Earth, which alter the amount and location of solar radiation reaching the Earth. This is known as solar forcing (an example of radiative forcing). Milankovitch emphasized the changes experienced at 65° north due to the great amount of land at that latitude.