Ignatius L. Donnelly

[Bianca]

Great , Lisa - I saw that, thank you!


I am a BIG fan, can you tell?....LOL, LOL....

[Lisa Wolfe]

I think that most people who are into Atlantis are.  It's a shame that he had such a sad life in the end!  He would never guess his book is still so big, in the 21st Century!

[Lisa Wolfe]

Ragnorak is all done, I asked the mods to move it to "Catastrophes & Prehistory" cause it seemed to fit better there.  It is a very good book!  Not really about Atlantis, though, but the catastophe that may have "sunk" it.

More later.

Lisa

[Bianca]

THANK YOU, LISA!!!


THAT CERTAINLY WAS A   B  I  G   JOB!!!



(Make sure you get a 'stickie', too, so it doesn't get lost.....)

[Lisa Wolfe]

It sure was a big job!  I like long books, though, cause they seem more "scholarly."  Looks like I got a stickie when it got moved.

I found another good book, "Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic," that is all about lost islands in the Atlantic that I'll be printing shortly. Glad you like the work!

Lisa

[Bianca]

Great, Lisa, that's what we need!

I just scanned it and I noticed that the picture did not show on answer #4.  Maybe you forgot
to go over it with you mouse, I do a lot of that too - pretty embarassing when I do it on a
greeting card, though....LOL!

[Lisa Wolfe]

I forgot to put the "IMG" brackets around it.  Thanks for letting me know!  Fixed now.  It has some pretty cool sections on Antillia, Atlantis, Bimini and the Isle of Demons.  I wonder if some of these phantom islands actually existed, but were sunk in more recent times?

[Bianca]

QUOTE:

"I wonder if some of these phantom islands actually existed, but were sunk in more recent times?"

Lisa, it happens all the time, sometimes they stay permenantly, sometimes they disappear.
It is a common occurrence in especially earthquake-prone areas.

I was watching a program about the Azores recently and that's what happened there a few years
ago, then shortly after, the island sank.

[Georgium Sidus]

Hello Bianca, do you remember the title of the program you saw on the Azores?  I am always looking for new material on it.  Thanks.

[Georgium Sidus]

As early as 1883 Ignatius Donnelly suggested that the mid-Atlantic Ridge was a remnant of Atlantis. But most modern geologists and oceanographers consider that, far from being the relic of a continent that sank beneath the sea, the ridge was forced upward from the ocean floor, probably by volcanic activity. One theory is that as the continents drifted apart they produce a huge fault line that is a center of earthquake and produce a huge fault line that is a center of earthquake and volcanic action. Some of the earth's molten center has erupted through this crack and built up into a ridge, even rising above the waves in several places. However, there is evidence that this explanation may have to reviewed before too long.

 

A diver taking part in A.R.E.s Poseidia 75 expedition to Bimini in the Bahamas examines an encrusted marble column found about a mile south of the Bimini Road. In 1968, what appeared to be a vast underwater road was discovered off Bimini, and the next year the columns, of which this is one, were found.
 

Seabed cores taken from the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1957 brought up freshwater plants from a depth of two miles. And in one of the deep valleys, known as Romanche, sands have been found that appear to have been formed by weathering when that part of the ridge was above water level. In a 1969 a Duke University research expedition dredged 50 sites along an underwater ridge running from Venezuela to the Virgin Islands, and brought up granitic rocks, which are normally found only on continents. Commenting on this discovery, Dr. Bruce Heezen of the Lamont Geological Observatory said:

"Up to now, geologists generally believed that light granitic or acid igneous rocks are confined to the continents and that the crust of the earth beneath the sea is composed of heavier, dark-colored basaltic rock... Thus, the occurrence of light-colored granitic rocks may support an old theory that a continent formerly existed in the region of the eastern Caribbean and that these rocks may represent the core of a subsided, lost continent."

A recent report on the nature of the Atlantic seabed appears to confirm that there is at least part of a former continent lying beneath the ocean. Under the heading "Concrete Evidence for Atlantis?" the British Journal New Scientist of June 5, 1975 reported, "Although they make no such fanciful claim from their results as to have discovered the mythical mid-Atlantic landmass, an international group of oceanographers has now convincingly confirmed preliminary findings that a sunken block of continent lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery comes from analyzing dredge samples taken along the line of the Vema offset fault, a long east-west fracture zone lying between Africa and South America close to latitude 11� "N".

 

The report goes on to state that in 1971 two researchers from the University of Miami recovered some shallow-water limestone fragments from deep water in the area. Minerals in the limestone indicated that they came from a nearby source of granite that was unlikely to occur on the ocean floor. More exhaustive analysis of the dredge samples revealed that the limestones included traces of shallow-water fossils, implying formation in very shallow water indeed, a view confirmed by the ratios of oxygen and carbon isotopes found in the fragments. One piece of limestone was pitted and showed evidence of tidal action.

[Georgium Sidus]

The researchers believe that the limestone dates from the Mesozoic era (between 70 and 220 million years ago) and forms a cap "on a residual continental block left behind as the Atlantic spread out into an ocean." the New Scientist observes that

"The granitic minerals could thus have come from the bordering continents while the ocean was still in it infancy. Vertical movements made by the block appear to have raised it above sea level at some period during it's history.

It would therefore seem that there is a lost continent in the Atlantic, but unfortunately for Atlantists, it evidently disappeared long before man appeared on earth. Most scientist remain convinced that there is no likelihood of finding the Atlantis described by Plato in the area of the mid-Atlantic Ridge. As L. Sprague de Camp comments in his Lost Continents, nearly all of the ridge, except for the small and mountainous Azores region, is under two or three miles of water, "and there is no known way to get a large island down to that depth in anything like the 10,000 years required to fit in with Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis." He also points to a report published in 1967 by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, who announced that "after 13 years of exploring the mid-Atlantic Ridge, he had "found no trace of sunken cities."

Atlantists reply that Dr. Ewing could have been looking in the wrong places, or perhaps too close to the center of the destructive forces that plunged Atlantis into the ocean. Some Atlantists have suggested that the original Atlantic landmass broke up into a least two parts, one of which sank long after the other. Perhaps Plato's Atlantis was a remnant of the continent that oceanographers now appear to have detected in the Atlantic, and perhaps it was not submerged until very much more recent times. The bed of the Atlantic is, after all, an unstable are and one that has given birth to numerous islands, then swallowed them up again. In 1811, for example, volcanic activity in the Azores resulted in the emergence of a new island called Sammrina, which shortly sank back again into the sea. In our own time, the island of Surtsey, 20 miles southwest of Iceland, has slowly risen from the ocean. Surtsey was formed during a continuous underwater eruption between 1963 and 1966.

If Atlantis did exist in the Atlantic above the great fault line that runs between the present continents, it would certainly have been plagued by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Is it mere coincidence that Plato should have situated his lost continent in an ocean that does apparently contain such a continent, and in an area subject to the very kind of catastrophe he describes? Atlantists think not.

[Georgium Sidus]

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_bermuda_5f.htm

A diver taking part in A.R.E.s Poseidia 75 expedition to Bimini in the Bahamas examines an encrusted marble column found about a mile south of the Bimini Road. In 1968, what appeared to be a vast underwater road was discovered off Bimini, and the next year the columns, of which this is one, were found

[Bianca]

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"Hello Bianca, do you remember the title of the program you saw on the Azores?  I am always looking for new material on it.  Thanks."



Welcome, Georgium Sidus!!


Yes, the program I was watching is:


                                                       NO RESERVATION

Travel Channel

It's a 'foodie' program and this week it took place in the Azores.  The incident was mentioned by
one of the islanders.

The episode was new, so it will be repeated.