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ROCKS OF ATLANTIS MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND BENEATH BIMINI

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« on: August 13, 2007, 08:16:53 am »








Relevant Portions Of The Log of Test Well 2



The second well, to be used privately by the Big Game Club, was drilled to 400 ft. The lithology was very similar to the first well, being wackestone, packstone and grainstone. Subarieal exposures were noted again and these correlated with the core of the first site reasonably well. Stylophora sp was encountered at 130 ft. Smaller coral pieces were encountered compared to the first well. This is to be expected, however, as coral usually grows patchily and not in a uniform manner. Below 200 ft the lithology was fairly similar, with considerable burrowing. Hydrogen sulfide was reached at approximately 120 ft.


Under the heading of “Notes,” on a page that accompanies the well log for Test Well 2, one finds that the student had written:

120 ft H2S
130 ft H2S
140 ft H2S, black water

400 ft artesian water pressure (H20 comes up in pipe on its own)

Here, then, we have confirmation of black sulfur water, at 140 feet in Well 2. And the information about artesian water pressure at the 400-ft depth suggests that the strange statement, also in Cayce reading 996-12, about the flow of sweet water over the top of any well drilled for a potable water supply in the northern portion of South Bimini, may also be true.


Two aspects of the above findings, and of our Cayce readings' interpretations, prompted us to make our own investigation of the subsurface rocks at Bimini. The first aspect that prompted us was the clarity of geologic vision displayed in reading 996-12's description of Bimini's subsurface. The second was the identification of "Stylophora sp, at 130 ft, which became extinct after the Pliocene," by the person who logged the two bore holes. If that identification was correct, it would mean that much older rocks of Pliocene age are far closer to the surface beneath North Bimini than one would have expected, and that a lot of Pleistocene-age sedimentary rocks would be missing from the geologic section.

Such a gap of time, represented by missing rock strata, is the definition of a geological disconformity. A disconformity is marked by evidence of erosion during a break in sedimentation, in which the bedding below the erosion surface is parallel to that above; that is, there has been no deformation of the lower series of beds prior to erosion.
Notes in the two student logs indicate that the test wells may have encountered several disconformities. Even one disconformity at Bimini would be quite significant. It would tell one that at a time when sea level was lower than 130 ft below present sea level — as was the case between roughly 120,000 to 13,000 years or so ago — an ancient land surface would have been exposed beneath what is now the Bimini area. This would tend clearly to validate the Atlantis-at-Bimini story of Cayce reading 364-3.


The emergence of a carbonate terrain above sea level, when sea level had dropped by up to 300 to 400 ft during the last part of the Pleistocene epoch, would have produced a lowered base level for the discharge of ground water. This situation would have permitted meteorically derived fluids to penetrate the "elevated" terrain more deeply, contributing to secondary porosity and the formation of karst topography. Examples of secondary-porosity solution channels can be seen in Figures 9 and 14.


This was the case for development of the karst in major carbonate aquifers in the Southeast coastal plain of the United States during the Holocene (last 10,000 years). Sinkholes are the primary landform found in mature karst terrain, and if the above-sea-level phase of the last lowering of sea-level at Bimini resulted in some sink holes in the Bimini area, one such closed depression could have become the "well" mentioned in Cayce reading 587-4.
(Q) Could the well in Bimini be promoted and reconstructed?

[Stenographer's note: Mrs. [587] told Edgar Cayce that after her "life" reading {a type of reading covering a series of past lives} she had flown to Bimini and had found a freshwater well marked, or walled around the top, with stones of peculiar composition and strange symbols.]

(A) There has been much given through this source [996 & 996-12] as to how that particular portion of what was the Atlantean period might be developed. While it would make for much outlay in money, as ordinarily termed, there are certain interests that would join IN such an undertaking. As those of the Dodge interests, as given. For it could be established as a center for two particular purposes; a regeneration for those with certain types of individual ailments (not only from the well, or water from same, but from the surrounding waters - because of the life in same), and a center for archaeological research. And as such activities are BEGUN, there will be found much more gold in the lands under the sea than there is in the world circulation today! (587-4)



The question then became, could we duplicate the findings of the person who logged the boreholes on north Bimini. If so, how? One cannot just go around on Bimini drilling exploratory holes to his heart's content. He must first obtain a permit from the Government of the Bahamas.
Serendipitously, we suppose, we already had a Bahamian permit to drill into the rocks beneath the waters of the Bimini Inlet. We had obtained the permit to look for geochemical signatures of an igneous intrusion. This because we had indications, from our previous magnetic and geochemical studies there, of a buried volcano or volcanic intrusion, at an unknown but shallow depth, in the carbonate rocks. We decided, then, to drill exploratory holes to take rock cores for the dual purpose of investigating both the bedrock stratigraphy and the minerals of any igneous intrusion into the carbonate country rock beneath the Bimini Inlet.

We also decided to drill at the three points shown below, using a jack-up barge to ensure stability of the drilling rig on the deck. GPS locations for each core-hole are given in the appendix at the end of this article.
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