Post by junefive on Sept 20, 2004 2:31:52 GMT -5
The Secret of Atlantis, by Otto Muck — points to evidence of the impact of a colossal body with the Earth in the southwest Atlantic as the cause of Atlantis' demise. Fiery debris rained on Atlantis, followed by tidal waves that inundated the island. Muck refers to twin depressions 23,000 ft deep in the sea floor close to Puerto Rico, and to 3,000 shallow, eroded troughs, occupying part of a elliptical area that extends out over the Atlantic. He deduces that these were the result of an asteroid 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide that hit the Earth with an explosive force of 3,000 medium-sized hydrogen bombs, triggering the earthquakes described in Plato's story, and splitting the Atlantic open along the line of the present-day mid-Atlantic Ridge. Furthermore, the Earth's Poles were shifted, and a new geological age abruptly began, with the seasons becoming sharply differentiated for the first time. Siberia, until then having a cool, but not freezing, climate, was suddenly plunged into Artic cold, instantly freezing thousands of mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, many of them to be found in good condition several millennia later.