Mid-Atlantic Ridge Formation

What about the map.

[edit on 22-8-2006 by atlantian149]

One of the problems with that theory is that "it would form a continent if the water level was off by a little bit".

It is needed more than a "little bit" to put that region above sea level.

As you can see here most of the area needed to make a continent is pictured in green. Looking at the scale you can see that "green" is around 2,000 metres under the sea level, not just a "little bit".

If the water levels were so low then the Mediterranean sea would have been closed and so the boats from Atlantis could not enter it.

As for the map, if you are referring to this map (I couldn't see anything with the other link) then this map was made in the 17th century and it shows Atlantis "according to the description of Plato", so it has nothing new to add to that description.

What about the Map? It wasn't drawn by Plato. Plato lived at a time when they had scrolls, long before paper and printing. He wrote, he didn't draw. The map on one of your previous posts looks like one from the past 200-odd years and therefore proves nothing I'm afraid.

There is another theory that the mediterranian was once a dry basin much like the area surrounding the dead sea. There is some geological and archeological evidence of the straits of Gibralter being formed by sudden and massive erosion when the ocean began to spill over a natural damn that once existed there. If atlantis had been on an island in a salt lake in the basin, particulary if it were near Gibralter, It would have been destroyed. The filling of the Mediterranean would account for the many tales of the "Great Flood" and the sinking of atlantis as well.

It'll never happen.

Ignorance, like rust, never sleeps.

Harte

zoom in at 32n 13.7w ....I think you'll be interested

in my earlier post, I did detail how the ocean floor in that area has also been known to change dramtically in depth, due to the Ice Ages etc.. With the weight being lifted and causing a rebalancing of the plates, along with the rising sea level from melting glaciers, that 2000m could be dramitically cut. Not saying it did, just that it could have been.

As for the 32N, 13.7W comment above... All I see there are a few submerged mountains. it doesn't appear to be an area that would resemble the "lost continent", as described by Plato. Unless I am missing something.

I was looking at it all wrong. First, go here:
ibis.grdl.noaa.gov...
Then set the zoom factor to 16 and click on the eastern edge of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge formation. The location I'm referring to is actually 37.25N, 22.5W. If the top left corner of the image reads 42.5N, 36.2W then you've clicked on the spot I believe is the location of Atlantis. And the bottom -right corner reads 32N, 13.7W. See the ring formation, and all the streaks coming out from the center in all directions? and there's landmass in the center of the ring, which I believe to be the center of the CITY of Atlantis.