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STARTING PLACES FOR BEGINNERS DON & MAUREEN TARLING CONTINENTAL DRIFT: A STUDY OF THE EARTH'S MOVING SURFACE Anchor Books, 1975. LC # QE 511 5 T35 JOHN WHITE POLE SHIFT Doubleday, 1980. LC# BF 1999 W535 Popularized pole shift. Overview of key people, issues and 'answers.' For our taste, too much 'evidence' from seers. Published by Edgar Cayce Foundation, so if you can't find it, for sale here: http://www.baproducts.com/poleshft.html EMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY EARTH IN UPHEAVAL Doubleday, 1955 LC# QE 507 V4 Although he posits comet as cause, the signs of catastrophic upheaval are worth reviewing. We all enter the geological time machine through observable evidence.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS TO THE TECTONIC CONTROVERSY CLAUDE C. ALLBRITTON, JR CATASTROPHIC EPISODES IN EARTH HISTORY Chapman and Hall Publishers 1989 QE 506. A43. 1989 A historical perspective on the history of geological catastrophism. FRANK DAWSON ADAMS THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Dover Publications Reprint LC # QE 11 A34 1954 A good introduction to the evolution of geological assumptions and theories throughout history. MOTT T. GREENE GEOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: CHANGING VIEW OF A CHANGING WORLD Cornell University Press, 1982. LC # QE 11 G73 1981 " A very readable history of evolving tectonic thinking"

DETAILED EVIDENCE, DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONS DEREK AGER THE NEW CATASTROPHISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RARE EVENT IN GEOLOGICAL HISTORY Cambridge University Press, 1993 L.C. # QE 506 A34 1993 The author focuses on terrestrial mechanisms for global cataclysm, saying "it is obvious to me that the whole history of the Earth is of short, sudden happenings with nothing much in particular in between..." D.S. ALLAN & J.B. DELAIR WHEN THE EARTH NEARLY DIED: COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF A WORLD CATACLYSM 11,500 YEARS AGO Gateway Books, Bath, England, 1995 L.C. # QE 506 A44 1995 After a very detailed discussion of evidence from the earth sciences, archaeology and ancient texts, the authors conclude that a unique type of extraterrestrial body struck earth. But some key parts of that evidence could be interpreted within the pole-shift framework.

WHY & HOW ANY GEOSCIENTIFIC STATUS QUO RULES JOHN A. STEWART DRIFTING CONTINENTS AND COLLIDING PARADIGMS Indiana University Press, 1990 LC # QE 511.5.S86 1990 Aimed at the more general reader. It critically examines problems in rationally developing scientific theories, using examples from the plate tectonic wars. Covers the cultural basis of cognitive processes in theory building and testing. Discusses how lack of a global theory limits enquiry across different areas of specialization in geosciences. H.E. LeGRAND DRIFTING CONTINENTS AND SHIFTING THEORIES Cambridge University Press, 1988. LC # QE 511.5. L44 1988 Aimed at the more knowledgable reader. It details battles in the tectonic revolution within different areas of localized specializations. Covers the resistances and an alternative (expansionism) to plate tectonics. Constructively criticizes how changes to the geo-scientific status quo were arrived at--more through rhetoric than rational comparison of theory to fact. If nothing else, read the last 10 pages of Chapter 10,The 'revolution' proclaimed, which discusses pressures to join the consensus.

KEY POLE SHIFT THEORISTS CHARLES HAPGOOD EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST: A KEY TO SOME BASIC PROBLEMS OF EARTH SCIENCE Pantheon, 1958 LC# QE 511 H415 THE PATH OF THE POLE Chilton 1970 LC# QE 511 H415 1970 (E.S.C., revised)

GETTING DOWN TO DETAILS CHRIS S. SHERRERD "Gyroscopic Precession and Celestial Axis Displacement" in Velikovsky Reconsidered , Stephen L. Talbott, et al, Warner Books, 1976 LC # QB 51 T35 Unusual changes in one's view of the sky could "also result from major shifts in the celestial position of the poles, i.e., the direction of the Earth's spin axis...These could occur without large angular decelerating and accelerating forces and without major tectonic disruptions, by the phenomenon of gyroscopic_precession. " (173) D.S. ALLAN & J.B. DELAIR When the Earth Nearly Died -especially Parts One, Two and the first half of Four.

GLACIATION AND ICE AGES Alastair G. Dawson Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate Routledge Publishers 1992

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