Arctic East Siberia had a lower latitude in the Pleistocene

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Main Authors: Willy Woelfli, Walter Baltensperger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2007
• Subjects: era do gelo; deslocamento dos pólos; nuvem interplanetária; extinção em massa; ice age; pole shift; interplanetary cloud; mass extinction; Science; Q; Arctic; Greenland; North Pole; Dansgaard-Oeschger events; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0001-37652007000200001; https://doaj.org/article/aee181b82659439686f5ce058f322129

Remains of mammoths in Arctic East Siberia, where there is not sufficient sunlight over the year for the growth of the plants on which these animals feed, indicate that the latitude of this region was lower before the end of the Pleistocene than now. Reconstructing this geographic pole shift, we introduce a massive object, which moved in an extremely eccentric orbit and was hot from tidal work and solar radiation. Evaporation produced a disk-shaped cloud of ions around the Sun. This cloud partially shielded the solar radiation, producing the cold and warm periods characterizing the Pleistocene. The shielding depends on the inclination of Earth's orbit, which has a period of 100. 000 years. The cloud builds up to a point where inelastic particle collisions induce its collapse The resulting near-periodic time dependence resembles that of Dansgaard-Oeschger events. The Pleistocene ended when the massive object had a close encounter with the Earth, which suffered a one per mil extensional deformation. While the deformation relaxed to an equilibrium shape in one to several years, the globe turned relative to the rotation axis: The North Pole moved from Greenland to the Arctic Sea. The massive object split into fragments, which evaporated. Na Sibéria Oriental Ártica, onde há sobras de mamutes, a luzsolar durante o ano é insuficiente para sustentar as plantas que alimentam esses animais. Isto prova que a latitude dessas regiões era menor durante o Pleistoceno. Reconstruindo esse deslocamento geográfico dos pólos introduzimos um planeta adicional numa órbita tão excêntrica que a energia da maré e da radiação solar o esquentou. A sua evaporação criava em torno do sol uma nuvem de íons que espalhava a radiação solar e assim causava os períodos quentes e frios do Pleistoceno. O efeito depende da inclinação da órbita da terra, que varia com um período de 100. 000 anos. Quase periodicamente anuvem se formava até o ponto em que as colisões inelásticas entre as partículas a levaram ao colapso. Essa dependência do tempo é ...