Lunar Capture
In December 1965 in Atlantis, Sykes wrote Moon Fragments in the Argentine and Chile based on a report in Science signed by William A. Cassidy of the Lamont Observatory, three other Americans, and an Argentinean geologist, Louisa M. Villar. In summary, “A persistent legend in Argentina tells of a giant chunk of iron that fell from the sky in a spectacular fireball. The legend flourished over thousands of years because it was demonstrably true. The evidence lay partly buried in the sandy soil of the northern plains, in a region that was aptly named Campo del Cielo — Field of the Sky. Successive waves of Spanish Conquistadors saw the massive iron block with their own eyes... It is obvious that the mass was a meteorite... the American research team... came to the conclusion that the original meteor was part of a moon that fell on Earth...”
In July 1967 in Atlantis, Georg Hinzpeter wrote, Modifications Caused By Pre-Lunar Anchorages. He wrote, “The serious movements in the terrestrial crust caused by the three phased anchorages of the previous moon, the zone of which extended to thousands of kilometers over the surface, left behind crustal deformations, crevasses, and fractures, many of which are still to be observed in various areas... The fact is that the Moon can be considered as a gigantic electro-magnet that leaves contra-polarization in crevasses that leave corresponding traces. These magnetic traces are still to be noted even today...During these periods there was a bombardment of the Earth with cosmic rays on an intensive scale having marked effects on terrestrial flora and fauna, many forms of life being exterminated and others forced to adapt themselves to the altered circumstances. Geophysical research has shown that vast changes took place in marine life, these sudden developments being connected with changes in the terrestrial magnetic fields...”
Oceanography
The geology of the Atlantic is not simple — different areas have different likelihoods of having been above water. In 1988, current geological theory found it impossible to accept that the entire Atlantic Ocean was once a continent, but geologists have considered the possibility that certain areas of the ocean once were dry land.
In 1912, Pierre Termier, Director of Science of the Geological Chart of France, read a paper indicating that the Atlantic comprised two deep basins or troughs, with a central ridge rising in some places to the surface of the ocean, as in the instance of the Azores. The Dolphin and Challenger Ridge was named after the ships whose soundings in the 19th century were the first to reveal its shape and extent. Termier emphasized in his paper that this region was a great volcanic zone.
In November 1948 in Atlantis, Francis Ashton wrote The Voyage Of The Albatross. Professor Hans Pettersson, well known for his round the world trip on the Albatross completed in 1948, for the purpose of exploring the deep seas, published his findings in Sweden during World War II. Pettersson concluded that a reduction of the Atlantic waters by four-thousand meters would produce three land masses in the center: the first stretched southwards from the land bridge connecting Canada and Britain via Greenland, of which the peaks are now the Azores; the second, a small island centered round what are now St. Paul Islands; and the third and largest stretching as far south as the Falklands, and having Tristan da Cunha as its main peak. Pettersson believed that the center of the Atlantic was above water 15,000 years ago, and at the same time the present Caribbean Sea was an inland lake, while the Mediterranean was separated from the Atlantic by a strip of land over a hundred miles wide.
In 1966, Malaise published A New Deal in Geology or Atlantis a Geological Reality. Sykes reviewed the book in a 1969 issue of Atlantis and commented, "In a way Atlantis has become the battleground between the American concepts of oceanography as exemplified by Dr. Ewing and his associates at Lamont, and the European concepts as exemplified by Dr. Nils Odhner, Dr. Zhirov, Dr. Malaise, and many others. The point at issue is a simple one — The American idea does not permit the existence of Atlantis or for that matter of any marked change in the ocean bed within a long period of time. The European idea, on the contrary, not only allows for the existence of Atlantis but even insists on it... "
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