Sea Level Study Reveals Atlantis Candidate

NewScientist.com ^ | 9-19-2001 | Jon Copley

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I've always speculated that if Atlantis did exist that it would be 10,000+ years ago. Time to have Mr. Ballard go look at this spot. (I hope it's not to early to start posting this stuff again)

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Bump.

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[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Thanks, nice change of pace, life does go on, but with war always there to see in the back of our minds and on the TV screens with the missing towers and the bombed out Pentagon.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Not only is Plato the earliest source for "Atlantis," he is the only source.

[RightWhale]

Is that what Iraq and Afghanistan will look like in a couple of days? A couple of sunken islands?

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"Is that what Iraq and Afghanistan will look like in a couple of days?"

We can hope, huh?

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"Not only is Plato the earliest source for "Atlantis," he is the only source."

You are 100% correct. (I wish it were otherwise)

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[T. P. Pole]

The lower sea levels of 11,000 years ago

So this island disappeared just in the last 100 years or so? Has to be, since we all know about global warming, and how the raising sea levels are caused by cars.

[#3Fan]

Not only is Plato the earliest source for "Atlantis," he is the only source.

Not true!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Thanks, just saw it.

Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?

At least it isn't trying to convince me that it is Santorini.

[#3Fan]

Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?

Not to mention the 300 mile long, 100 mile wide plain that existed in the middle.

[RadioAstronomer]

I think Atlantis was a work of fiction that ended up a legend. In my mind it kind of rates right up there with the face on Mars. :)

[Hugh Akston]

Just over 11,000 years ago, the slow rise of post-glacial sea levels accelerated briefly to more than two metres per century, according to records from coral reefs. This would have swamped the island, Collina-Girard suggests. "The archipelago was engulfed 9000 years before Plato," he says.

You mean they had global warming back then? </sarcasm>

[Ditter]

Intresting. Thanks. Makes a lot more sense than the other places its thought to have been.

[Dog Gone]

This seems pretty speculative to me. It would be fun to do an ocean floor archaelogical survey to see if there are artifacts or evidence of construction, but that's true of just about every place on the continental shelves today.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yep.

[cogitator]

I still prefer the Thera eruption and tidal waves on Crete affecting the Minoans.