Study: Atlantis Sinking Has Scientific Basis

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Study: Atlantis Sinking Has Scientific Basis
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050808/atlantis_zoom0.html

Plato's account of how the fabled city of Atlantis sank below the surface of the ocean does have scientific grounding, according to a seafloor survey of an island west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Marc-André Gutscher of the University of Western Brittany in Plouzané, France, performed a detailed mapping of the seafloor on Spartel Island, already proposed as a candidate for the origin of the Atlantis legend in 2001 by French geologist Jacques Collina-Girard.

Lying 60 meters beneath the surface in the Gulf of Cadiz, the island is right "in front of the Pillars of Hercules," or the Straits of Gibraltar, as stated by Plato.

Analysis of sedimentary deposits revealed a large earthquake and a tsunami hit the island about 12,000 years ago, roughly the time indicated in the Greek philosopher's writings for the destruction of the city, Gutscher reports in the current issue of Geology.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050808/atlantis.html

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1. Thanks for posting this

I'm surprised they included an 1882 map with the article. It doesn's seem to have any factual relationship to the article other that a mythological idea of the scope of the Atlantis empire.

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2. so was Santorini

the time frame works there as well for the tsunami destruction of the Minoans on Crete.