1967 cont.
Dating of Atlantis Catastrophe, By Rene
Malaise 1967
According to Plato the great catastrophe when Atlantis
sank, or rather the war between the Athenians and the Atlanteans, occurred 9000
years before his time. Practically all later authors on the Atlantis subject
have accepted this date referring to a 12 months year. This would imply that
Atlantis sank beneath the sea-surface contemporary with the end of the Great
Ice Age, or 11,000 years ago. The oceanographic evidence of sediment deposits
taken by Mr. Piggot across the Faraday Hills implies on the other hand that the
Mid Atlantic Ridge, that is the Atlantis Continent, remained above water -level
many thousands of years after the end of the Ice Age. It is almost
certain that that first sank the northern part of this Mid-Atlantic Ridge, viz.
The low and narrow now submarine range connecting
Atlantis-The Meteor Impact Theory, Egerton
Sykes, 1967 c.
An essential preamble towards the understanding of the
Atlantis question is a realization of the nature of the forces, which may have
been involved in the catastrophe. The amount of energy involved in the sinking
of a continent is pretty large by terrestrial if not by cosmic standards. By BC
10,000 the approximate date of the submersion the Earth was already in its
middle age and no longer possessed that flexibility which had permitted the
emergence of the great continents and the building of the mountain chains of
past eras. Hence any form of major occurrence would have to be of external
origin as geologists are pretty certain that nothing of an internal nature has
occurred since that date. The acceptance of the theory of meteor craters is
extremely recent, and may be said to have started off in 1900 when D. M.
Barringer while prospecting in Arizona came across the enormous crater at Coon
Butte, Arizona, which is nearly a mile across, and which is over 600 feet in
depth. He was firmly convinced that it had been a giant meteorite, but it was
thirty years later before his hypothesis gained even limited acceptance. In
1913 Hans Hoerbiger, the Austrian engineer, published his theory of Cosmic
origins, in which he stated that the Earth had in its history captured several
small planets or asteroids, all of which had crashed down on to the surface,
causing vast upheavels. In his work he referred several times to F.R. Mounton,
the astronomer who was to prove that Barringer Crater was of meteoric origin,
but not until fifteen years later, in 1929.
It has been calculated that the force of the impact of the
Barringer meteor was 9.44x 10 to the 22nd Ergs about the same as a
2.3 Megaton A bomb. Despite all this no real progress was made, apart from
finding of the Henbury and associated craters in Australia in 1931. The real
impetus came after the end of the second World War, and was set off when a
prospector named Chubb saw a photograph taken by the Royal Canadian Air Force
in 1942 which showed a completely circular lake of 3.5 klm in diameter. He
persuaded a friend to fly him up there and since then the site has been known
as Chubb Crater. It lies in Ungava, a portion of Quebec at the Southern end of
the Hudson Bay. Linked with it are a whole series of meteor Craters with the
diameters ranging from the 60 klm of Manicougon, the 32 klm of carswell Lake
the 32 klm and 21 klm of the Clearwater Lakes, the 14 klm of Couture Lake, the
same size as Chubb. They all seem to have occurred at the same time, and it has
been suggested that the Nastapoke-Belcher Islands Arc of Hudson Bay, the Ungava
Bay, and the Gulf of the Saint Lawerance River, were all formed at the same
time. It is even hinted that Hudson Bay itself may have been that of two
hundred million megaton A bombs, which is just what one would expect from a
small planetoid. The largest crater so far officially recorded is in South
Africa. It is the Vredefort Ring which has a diameter of 130 klm, which would
have been 4x10 to the 29th Ergs to rpoduce. To my mind this may have
been associated with the occurance of Diamonds in South Africa as it is only by
means of some enormous impact that the necessary pressure could have been
produced. Associated with this crater are the Campo del Cielo Craters in the
Argentine and adjoining countries. They constitue a group of nine, in two
parallel strips, and it is assumed that the asteroid or planetoid which
produced them must have been in orbit round the world,as the second group were
produced on another circuit. The crater lips of Samborombom Bay, the Gulf of
St. George, and the Terra del Fuego bay opposite the Falkland Islands all may
have occurred at the same time. The Falkland Islands themselves are probably
the remains of the hump or pinta left at the center of that particular impact.
Modern comparable occurances are few. The Krakatoa volcanic explosion of 1883
killed 36,000 people, wrecked 5,000 ships, and devastated 163 towns only needed
a force of 7.2 x 10 to the 22nd Ergs, the Mont Pelee eruption of
1901 which desitated Martinique was only of local import, and the Tunguskaya
Meteorite of 1908, which killed everything within a range of 30 klm and was
seen in Britain, 10,000 klm away, had the force of between 2x10 to the 21st
power and 3.2 x 10 to the 24th Ergs. There are two giant meteorites
of the past which are being commercially exploited at the present time. They
are the great nickel mine at Sudbury Ontario, and the ironmine at Narvik in
Norway. This latter mass of magnetic iron was so famous that was mapped in 1058
by Raysch. One presumes they were the hard metal cores of asteroids which were
too solid to break up and which just imbedded themselves in the ground. The
causes of the Atlantis catastrophe would probably have been nearer at hand than
any of the craters mentioned above. But in the Caribbean area Bermuda seems
to have been the central hump of a large crater extending to the Southern
Florida Coast with associated craters producing the Gulf of Campeche, the
Lesser Antilles Basin, and Mosquito Gulf. The minimum force required here for
the Bermuda strike would have been around that of two hundred million megaton A
bombs, about the same as that needed to produce Hudson Bay. The result would
have been catastrophic and adequate to sink Atlantis and to produced all the
frightening phenomena recorded in the legends from that time. As to its
probability Dr. Robert Dietz stated the other day that the earth is struck on
an average once in 10,000 years by a planetoid. As the time is now 2,000
years over due the assumption of Professor S. T. Butler of Sidney University
that there was a possibility that a minor planetoid Ikarus, will pass the
Earth on the 15th of June, 1968 at a distance estimated at four
million miles, but that if there was the slightest variation in the calculated
orbit the force of terrestrial gravity might cause it to fall on the Earth. The
impact would equal that of the Bermuda strike or the Hudson Bay one. The
results should be extremely interesting.
Referances -G. Hinzpeter 'The Campo del Ciely Meteorites',
and E. Sykes 'The Kaalisarv Craters'.
Webmasters Note- Now in light of all the Discovery Channel
programs and Professor excursions you can see that the subject was talked about
and explored back to 1960's especially this above report in 1967. It should be
only right for those programs to give credit to E. Sykes for his advanced
speculations since he was a follower of Hoerbiger Theories which have become
more real today then they did in 1913 as extremely plausible theories. It
should be noted that yes, " an engineer can be right about parts of the
earth's history" before Geologists and astronomers ever agreed in the past
with him or explored its potential scientific impact on recent theories from
his earlier theories. As you know they did not believe in craters being formed
by huge asteroids on earth till after the early 1920's strange it took that
long when the ancients had stories of falling rocks as giants described?????
So, the next time you see program about this stuff mentioned know that it is
probably 30 year old stuff because it was already called before the modern
speculation. I know the truth is sometimes hard to swallow for some who thought
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Consequences of the Atlantis
Disaster, E. Sykes C. 1967 and Haiti by James Lockwood