Magnus Polus

Magnus Polus
Tom Wassa 3/10/17


Imagine a great continent located at the North Pole, covered by two miles of snow and ice for hundreds of thousands of years. A continent with a landmass so large, that it would influence the Earth's temperature by reflecting vast amounts of the sun’s rays from the Earth’s crust. Through the forces of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, this great continent would be pulled apart and give birth to the continents of Asia, Europe, and North America.

The theory of Magnus Polus departs from the theory of Pangea. It counters to the idea of an Ice Age. It’s a paradigm shift that’s the foundation to the Tectonic Wave Theory. A theory that explains the movement of crust material, that simplifies the existence of geography features on Earth today.

As the great continent of Magnus Polus journeys across the North Pole, it accumulates more snow and ice at the center, separating the continent by an impenetrable barrier of two mile high glaciers, with subzero temperatures. The edge of the continent is the only area that is free from snow and ice, and this is where a small amount of land could sustain the existence of life. 


It is at this time early man and animals had boarded the tectonic arks of Magnus Polus.  Later the continent would break apart to become Asia, Europe, and North America.  Separated by snow and ice man was destined to develop their own communications, societies, and technologies. In the area where the climate was the harshest, the only focus of man’s existence was survival. In areas where the climate was more favorable for life, technology would advance.

As with past theories, a land bridge had once linked the continents of Asia and North America. This required man’s desire and need to migrate.  Man would have to travel through vast inhospitable territories to locate the land bridge to migrate to North America.  The theory of Magnus Polus put early man on one large continent, which was divided by snow and ice. The only goal for man was survival. Subsequently the forces of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge would rip and tear apart the continent of Magnus Polus.  It was simply fate and geographic forces that determined the destiny and the settlements of early man.

Throughout parts of the US today, including Michigan, you can find evidence of glaciers. By examining glacier scaring on the rocks that exist today, it appears that glaciers were once located further to the south in the warmer regions. For an unexplained reason, the Earth’s temperatures would have to drop dramatically, and as past theories speculates, triggering an Ice Age. 


The Ice Age Theory is at the heart of the formation of the Great Lakes. During the Ice Age, large glaciers allegedly traveled further south than normal, which dredged and formed the Great Lakes. However, there is a problem with this theory. There are over 100,000 glaciers in the world today, and not one of them is currently dredging a lake in the same way. This explanation of the formation of the Great Lakes is flawed.

Magnus Polus advances another theory, that there was no Ice Age. Very simply, the region that makes up Michigan today was simply located closer to the North Pole. This area would have looked very much like Antarctica does today. The forces of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge moved the continent Magnus Polus south from the North Pole. The evidence of this is found in the formation of the Appalachian Mountains and in a mineral called Zircon.

Zircons are used to date rocks, and researcher James Hibbert used the mineral to date the formation of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Hibbert believed the mineral was formed through the collision of tectonic plates. Hibbert found that Zircons were younger in the north, and older in the southern part of the mountain range. Hibbert also concluded that the Appalachian Mountain Range were formed when two micro-continents collided with North America, ten million years apart.

Research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Natural Environment Research Council also indicates that Zircon are formed at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The age dating of Zircon, that Hibbert used to support the Micro-Continent Collisions Theory, would also support the Theory of Magus Polus. As Magnus Polus crossed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the North Pole, the material produced at the ridge creates the Appalachian Mountains Range.

As Magnus Polus traveled further south, it was torn and then pushed apart by the forces of the ridges, shaping the new continent of North America. The curve of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the south changes the tectonic forces from north and south, to the east and west. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge produces more material faster toward the equator. Because material to the south near the equator is moving faster then material at the north, it creates a “Tectonic Tearing” process. Due to the fact that North America is traveling at a faster rate to the west, it has been pulled apart from Greenland and Newfoundland.

As North America moved south, the faster the Mid-Atlantic Ridge pushed the southern parts of North America to the west, away from the Ridge. As North America moved west, it took the newly formed Appalachian Mountains with it. Leaving parts of the younger Appalachian Mountain range behind in Newfoundland. Evidence of Tectonic Tearing and “Tectonic Flexing” can been seen through the Appalachian Mountains and St. Lawrence Seaway.

The Appalachian Mountain’s Zircons in the south were produced long before the Zircons in the mountain range in the north, which accounts for what Hibbert found in his research. However, it was not micro-continent collisions that formed the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains were formed when parts of North America were on or near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

The evidence that supports the existence of a great continent located at the north pole, can also be supported through the remains of the Woolly Mammoth.  It is believed that the Mammoth flourished at the end of the ice age.  Their remains can be found in parts of Asia, Europe and North America.  Today, there is no physical land bridge that connect these 3 continents. 



Biogeographic distribution of Mammuthus primigenius in the Late Pleistocene inferred from discovered fossil remains. Note the lighter blue regions were land during the Late Pleistocene. Adapted from Álvarez-Lao, et al. (2009)

However, the theory of a ice age, supports the possibility of an ice bridge, that allowed the mammoth to travel throughout the area on glacier that were believed to be 2 miles high.   “Today’s elephants spends 12-18 hours a day feeding .  Adult elephants can eat between 200-600 pounds of food a day.  As herbivores, elephants consume grasses, tree foliage, bark, twigs, and other vegetation daily.” (http://www.nationalelephantcenter.org/learn/)".  

The existence of snow cover, 2 mile high ice cap during the ice age, would prevent the migration of a large herbivores such as a mammoth.  Elephants travel primarily to eat, drink and mate.  A glacier would not provide the required food source to support the mammoth’s migration. 

 

Maximum extension of Mammuthus primigenius during the Late Pleistocene based on the current fossil record. Image credit: Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.023.

With the Mammoth’s range further south in the eastern part of the United States. Tectonic wave theory explains how the crust material has moved the mammoth’s remains and glacier scaring further to the south in the eastern part of the United States. 

Like man, the mammoth freely traveled about the coastline of the large continent of Magnus Polus.  Along the outer edges of the polar caps, free from ice, where plants life could support large herbivores like the mammoth. That the continent Magnus Polus was ripped down the middle, by the Mid Atlantic Ridge moving man, animals and the remains of mammoths to their current locations of today.