Message #146283

[Doug Fisher]

Hello Morrison,

Regarding the capital city, in the Parana Delta there is a unique circular landform located at the city's specified 7.25 miles between the plain and the sea which also happens to have a diameter matching Plato's specifications. From the linked article:

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  Figure 15 - Lines A, B, and C represent 14.5-mile channels extending between the plain and the sea
  with a center point at 7.25 miles representing the center point of the island city. Lines A and C
  represent extreme channel placements where the island city would lie closest to the Parana and
  the confluence of the Parana and Uruguay rivers.  Line B aligns the channel so that the center
  point is equidistant from the Mesopotamian plain and the sea. Multiple other channel placements
  would find the city's center located between these three points along or near arc ABC. Equidistant
  point B mysteriously sits atop a circular landform while line B itself lies near channels of similar
  overall length leading from the plain to the sea.

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  Figure 16 - Satellite image of the circular landform in the Parana Delta (top). Same image (below)
  with a 2.50-mile dimension set with  Google Earth™ to establish scale. The yellow overlain
  rings conform to the concentric rings of Atlantis and have been scaled to the image. While
  the circular landform does not appear to have any demarcations suggesting the existence of
  inner zones, the outside diameter of Atlantis’ outermost land zone at 2.41 miles (21 stadia) is
  an extraordinarily close match with this Parana Delta landform. The waterway surrounding the
  landform also conforms closely to Atlantis’ outer zone of water, which was to have had an
  outside diameter of 3.10 miles (27 stadia).

The delta location would be susceptible to liquefaction during a quake, which could explain why the warlike men are described as having "sank into the earth" and not the sea.

There occurred violent earthquakes and floods; in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. - (Timaeus)

-Doug