One theory, is that when the firmament was still in place above earth, the warmth was retained. This would be very similar to how a cloudy sky retains
the warm for the land below.
When looking at the area of where this island is located,
en.wikipedia.org...:Wfm_ellesmere_island.jpg
there is no current proven paradigm that would substantiate it's viability.
I have studied the expanding world model
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, and the lat and long would still make this a cold place where deciduous trees would be able to live.
However, if there was also a massive shift in the axis, then the trees would have been able to survive at that their former lat and long. But can you
imagine how fast that shift happened! Mammals being found with food in their mouths. And plants being preserved such as these!
Incidentally, the time difference between this island's forest and the petrified forest is approx 208 million years (209 M - 2 M).
On another plane of thought, if the expanding Earth theory is correct, where does this mass come from? Since volcanos release this magma through
extrusions in the Earth, could a mass, coming within close proximity to the Earth, perform the reverse? Filling up the center with magma?
I think this would indeed cause more than a pole shift, but a planetary one as well.
Ergo, land masses frozen within minutes, along with other inhabitants.
SNF


edit on 16-12-2010 by Violater1 because: (no reason given)