Message #86523

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Essan

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   posted 07-20-2004 05:52 AM                       
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If Atlantis existed in the Atlantic, it could not be a 'continent' in a geological sense.

Continents do not disappear.

The nearest continents get to sinking beneath the sea is when shallow seas cover their fringes -
as is the case today with NW Europe (around Britain) and SE N America (Bahamas).

There could have been a fairly large island, formed in one of the ways Dhill describes - most likely
(like the Azores plateau) through volcanic eruptions along the Mid Atlantic Ridge or as a consequence of lowered sea levels during the last ice age.

My own opinion is that it's very unlikely there was ever any large, habitable, landmass in the mid Atlantic though.