This image of the ancient buried landscape discovered deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean was made using sound waves bounced off different rock layers. An ancient meandering riverbed is visible. [CREDIT: R A Hartley et al.]
Posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this roughly 56-million-year-old landscape using data gathered for oil companies.
"It looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore," said Nicky White, the senior researcher. "It is like an ancient fossil landscape preserved 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the seabed."
So far, the data have revealed a landscape about 3,861 square miles (10,000 square km) west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands that stretched above sea level by almost as much as 0.6 miles (1 km). White and colleagues suspect it is part of a larger region that merged with what is now Scotland and may have extended toward Norway in a hot, prehuman world...
The team, led by Ross Hartley, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, found a wrinkly layer 1.2 miles (2 km) beneath the seafloor -- evidence of the buried landscape, reminiscent of the mythical lost Atlantis.
The researchers traced eight major rivers, and core samples, taken from the rock beneath the ocean floor, revealed pollen and coal, evidence of land-dwelling life. But above and below these deposits, they found evidence of a marine environment, including tiny fossils, indicating the land rose above the sea and then subsided...
The burning scientific question, according to White, is what made this landscape rise up, then subside within 2.5 million years? "From a geological perspective, that is a very short period of time," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
This image of the ancient buried landscape discovered deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean was made using sound waves bounced off different rock layers. An ancient meandering riverbed is visible. [CREDIT: R A Hartley et al.]
"Dangit, Aqualad! They found our potty! Scout a new place for us to go..."
Yes, but did they find Davy Jones’ locker?
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I thought Atlantis was in a galaxy far far away...
That’s in the pacific..
And if you want to see Atlantis, just look around. Devastated and sinking...
"Nothin' in 'ere except Peter's shorts"
Silly me....I’d have included an illustration of where it fits on the globe......
A rhetorical question - I wonder if Atlantis was a part of human civilization before the Biblical Flood ?
The theory there is that the Polynesian people were "invented here" and spread out to the South and North about 3000 to 5000 years ago.
Although they know the area does this (like that area off Scotland) they haven't yet figured out why.
It's probably easier to study that part of China than the area described in this article.
I think the only Atlantis that has ever exsisted is the Atlatis resort, currently open for business in the Bahamas.
Atlantis was found long ago. It’s in South America by Lake Titicaca.
Atlantis was found long ago. It’s in South America by Lake Titicaca.
Ban plate tectonics!!!
Similar, Aran Islands...
Snapped off and fell into the ocean...
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