On the change of latitude of Arctic East Siberia at the end of the Pleistocene

TL;DR

This paper proposes a hypothesis that a massive object caused a pole shift and climate variations during the Pleistocene by forming a solar-shielding cloud, leading to changes in Arctic latitude and ice deposition patterns.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hypothesis linking a massive object and solar shielding to Pleistocene climate shifts and pole displacement, supported by geophysical and astronomical reasoning.

Findings

Proposes a massive object caused Earth's pole shift at the end of Pleistocene.

Suggests solar shielding by a cloud influenced climate cycles and ice deposition.

Explains the Earth's deformation and pole relocation due to close encounter with the object.

Abstract

Mammoths lived in Arctic East Siberia. In this region there is not sufficient sunlight over the year for the growth of the plants on which these animals feed. Therefore the latitude of this region was lower before the end of the Pleistocene. As the cause of this geographic pole shift, we postulate 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 that characterize 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 density at which inelastic particle collisions induce its collapse The resulting near-periodic time dependence resembles that of Dansgaard-Oeschger events. During cold periods fine grained inclusions were deposited into the ice. The Pleistocene ended when the massive object had a close encounter with the Earth, which suffered a one per mil stretching 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 was torn to pieces, which evaporated.