Geology of Atlantis

Lonestar said:

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A large meteor could have created waves hundreds of kilometers high.

As a kilometer is roughly 5/8ths of a mile, using the figure of 200 as a minimum for his "hundreds of kilometers high" would produce a wave of 5/8 X 200 = 125 miles high. That is 660,000 feet which is better known as Outer Space. Can't happen. Not only the ocean's waters would be in outer space, the whole planet would be atomized.

Lonestar, I believe you are speculating when you say:

"Approximately 36 million years ago, the Africa plate could no longer push against the area of boundary damage. The mountains created there had poked above the ocean surface, creating an island. With an immovable barrier at the new Atlantis, but with continued subduction farther east, the only result would be one of rotation -- deflected around the impediment."

"Atlantis had its effects on the geology of Earth, and also on its climate. But there are also clues that the children of Atlantis -- its refugees -- may have been matriarchal (ruled by women). From this we may have gotten the myths of the Amazons and the patterns of many cultures across Eurasia and North America. These, however, are the subject of another article."

Here is a link you might find useful:

High resolution seafloor images in the Gulf of Cadiz, Iberian margin

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3676.pdf

If you scroll down to the bottom, there are pictures of the different types of deposits.

Here is a Plate Tectonics map that might prove useful as well:

http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml