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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Wait, you do understand the sun does NOT orbit the earth. Only the rotation of the planet gives the appearance of the sun moving. The planet rotates at a very stable rate.
For the sun to appear to stand still would mean the planet stopped rotating. If that happened everything including mountains would fall down and be moving at thousands of miles per hour, and the crust would become molten. Bad thing.
Any legend of the sun moving or stopping is just make believe.
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Your response does not seem to be in reply to what I posted.
You speak of east/west.
I was talking about north/south.
Taking the present tilt of the earth and the location of Antarctica the fossilized remains of a forest would require a significant difference from how things are today.
No trees today can handle the long darkness and long summer of these regions even if the climate were more temperate. They can't transition how they work. They go dead.
Which opens the possibility that when Antarctica was host to trees, it was not centered around the south pole as it is today.
That or the trees were very different than trees today.
Also the ice pack depth on Antarctica would not result merely from expanses of time and its present position and conditions of ice growth. there is a shallow side and a deep side.
Antarctica's past was significantly different than its present.
The legends of a north/south shift of the sun in the sky are accompanied with tsunami's and earthquakes.
This is rambling postulations thread. My posts here are speculative in nature. They are meant to challenge our ideas of constant normal.