: Joseph O?Donoghue
: The Legend of Atlantis and The Science of Geology Atlantis and Catastrophe: Myth or Reality?
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This book is the first of a series that is itself the first serious scientific and open minded treatment of Plato's Atlantis legend to have been written by a qualified geologist in the last one hundred years, at least. Contrary to most geologists, the author treats the legend in a balanced way, without preconceptions or the dismissals that so typify the usual academic attitude to the question. In parallel with this treatment of Atlantis, the author takes a critical approach to the orthodox science of geology, and its theories. There is a simple either/or question here; if geology has everything right, then Atlantis is a myth. If, on the other hand, the Atlantis legend can be shown to have some validity, then the science of modern geology could be potentially false, and the science of geology will be investigated throughout this series. Therefore, this book series endeavors to redress the imbalance in the way these two subjects have been officially treated. A thorough study of the Atlantis question should determine its reliability, while a critical analysis of the science of geology should do the same for the so-called story of our planet. This first volume focuses on the Atlantis legend itself, and analyzes it from a mythological point of view, including classical and modern scholarly opinion, language, structure, and what is known about Plato. Most importantly, the legend will be analyzed from a geological point of view and other myths about floods and catastrophes will also be investigated. Catastrophe and flood legends are prevalent the world over, but in this study, certain legends from the Pacific Northwest of the United States were discussed by academic geology in connection with the new discipline of geo-mythology. This volume takes a serious look at these legends and the orthodox treatment of them. The conclusions reached in this volume are that the Atlantis legend cannot easily be dismissed, and would appear to be based on real events in the distant past.

The author graduated for University College Cork, Ireland, in 1986 with a Batchelor's degree in geology and began his career as a professional geologist working on water resources and environmental geology in both Ireland and the United States. Finding that the work of a geologist did not really appeal to him, he left the field and pursued his keen interest in the science of geology independently. His interest in the earth sciences was matched only by his interest in ancient archaeology, and the intersection of the two. Driven by a primary interest in the enigma of the Ice Age, the author embarked on a quest to solve what is probably the greatest mystery in geology, undeterred by the many decades of prior and futile efforts that had preceded his. Growing up near formerly glaciated landscapes in Ireland, and living among them in the Northeastern U.S., he became very familiar with the evidence the Ice Age left behind. Careful observation, an eye for detail, and an open mind enabled the author to achieve insights previously missed or obscured by an excessive adherence to traditional gradualist academic doctrine. His review of the geological sciences extended back to the early years of the science and to a time when catastrophism was the dominant view of earth history. The question to be answered, therefore, is whether modern-day gradualist uniformitarianism is correct or whether some form of catastrophism holds the better answer. And, after thirty years of study, the author considers the latter to be much more correct. The author's approach to his critical analysis of the Atlantis legend and the science of geology is based solely on the evidence and underpinned by the laws of physics, and, using much scientific evidence and those same laws of physics, this series seeks to demonstrate that the geological history of this world may well be very different to what orthodox academic geology says it is, and that lost Atlantis may indeed be a reality.

GENERAL SERIESOUTLINE

THE FOLLOWING PROVIDES A PRELIMINARY OUTline of the overall series, which, thus far, is estimated to involve eight volumes, each of 300 to 400 pages or so. While some early volumes are complete, or almost so, and others drafted to a certain extent, later volumes have not yet been taken much beyond the outline stage. The series has, however, been generally planned out, and much of the research material obtained, and because I have been researching for the past thirty years or so, I have already read many of the books and papers that will be used in such latervolumes.

Volume 1

We begin with Atlantis, starting with the legend itself. We first examine it to see what it tells us of the island continent and the North Atlantic. The legend also speaks of Greece and the Aegean, and we leave those for volume 2. A brief look at the relevant sections of the legend follows, especially those parts referring to the destruction. We then analyze the legend from the point of view of mythology, including what ancient writers said of it. Next comes a classical and philological analysis. We finish up volume 1 with chapters on the relatively new discipline of geomythology. This is the official, if we can call it that, academic treatment of myths and legends from a geological point of view, and apart from Atlantis, we look at myths from various places. We hear a lot from people both within and without academia, and we see that attitudes and opinions are not so monolithically united as academia would like the public tobelieve.

Volume 2

We continue with Atlantis and what the priest has to say about Greece and the Aegean. Being done with mythology at this point, this volume is almost entirely geological in nature. We first see what the legend says, and then we look at the recent structural geology of the Aegean area as well as mainland Greece. It is here we meet the Ice Age for the first time, as well as many of the sacred so-called Principles of Geology. Greece, as we’ll see, is littered with surface deposits of various kinds, mostly concentrated in the valleys, as might be expected, having been washed in there by something. And it is the “something” that is interesting; it must, of course, be able to do the work asked of it, and we will see just what it is being asked to do. Greece also has much palaeontology of interest, especially with regard to the animals that went extinct at the end of the Ice Age. We may be surprised at just how much evidence there is on Greece to support the view that the Atlantis legend has considerable validity, and, by the same token, we may also find that we cannot say the same foruniformitarianism.

Volume 3

Volume 3 is devoted entirely to Great Floods, scientific, historical, and legendary, focusing particularly on Noah’s, and its Sumerian equivalents, the latter possibly being the original source. Apart from minor amounts of mythology and a look at other writers’ claims, this volume is almost entirely archaeological and geological. Noah’s Flood, like Atlantis, has long been dismissed or, in this case, written off as just a local flood. In Mesopotamia, the supposed site of the Flood, we will see if there is any evidence for a major flood having swept over the region at about the correct historical or legendary time. This volume, like this series in general, is an unbiased, non-ideological, and solely scientific look at the great floods of Mesopotamian legend. However, based on what we will have just seen on Greece, we may have to extend our enquiries further back into the past to see what happened in Mesopotamia and the surrounding region at about the time of Atlantis’destruction.

Volume 4

Leaving geology for a while, we focus on the archaeology of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye, the Levant, and around to Egypt. We continue on to Libya and Malta, with some brief mention of sites in the western Mediterranean, before moving out into the Atlantic. The archaeological evidence that we will examine, in the form of buildings mostly, is generally referred to as megalithic, meaning construction that involves the use of very large (mega) blocks of stone (lithic). What is problematic about them is that they are all extremely old on the one hand and inexplicable from the point of view of engineering on the other. They appear to predate everything else, as though from an early and advanced civilization. In association with the archaeology, we include some geology of the Levant and especially the Nile Valley, the Sahara, and North Africa. We will find some very strange archaeological remains in Egypt and other places, as well as fossils and other surprising evidence in the bone-drySahara.

Volume 5

We begin our study of the Atlantic by defining its general structure and its various provinces, as well as its terrestrial surroundings and any islands. We study the surrounding shores, the continental shelves, and the nature of the lands and landforms bordering the ocean on both sides. We then begin an exploration of the depths and follow the first of the oceanographers of the 19th century, the telegraph cable layers, and the first scientific expeditions from different countries, and the surprising finds they made. It is here we meet much of the hard evidence for the former, and recent, existence of land in theAtlantic.

Moving into the 20th century, we get much more information from more modern oceanography. Better sampling equipment was in use, and the findings now get even more interesting and much more difficult for the uniformitarians to explain (or explain away). We also discuss the many features of the seafloor, such as fjords, undersea canyons, seamounts, earthquakes, undersea and subaerial volcanism, and, of course, the mid-Atlantic ridge. Much of what will be presented here is evidence that hasn’t heretofore been recognized or officially acknowledged for what it actually is, but it certainly suggests the former existence of large masses of dry land in the central North Atlantic Ocean.

We finish out this volume with a focus on the biological evidence from both sides of the ocean and from islands in it. It demonstrates the similarities and, in