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1970
Begins
The Pyramids of
The helicopter and the skin diver have recent years been responsible
for interesting discoveries and has in particular proved a valuable aid to archaeological
exploration. It was close conjunction of both that enabled some determined
enthusiasts after an archaeological team had abandoned exploring Rock Lake in
Wisconsin, U.S.A., in 1967 to locate the site of some pyramids that were
reputed to be covered by the water of the lake. These had been spotted on
previous occasions both from the surface when there had been a severe drought
and from the air and though their precise location was a trifle uncertain, the
foundations of the tradition that there were certain formations in the lake was
instigated, which eventually, on exploration yield such substantial results.
Though older descriptions do not altogether coincide with what actually divers
have so far found, that is a low platform with a sloping sides of lose
quartzite, it has been established that a man made structure or structures
exists on the bed of the lake. History reveals that there was a pre-Columbian
Indian city called Atzalan near the shores of the lake. But this circumstance
does not necessarily solve the problem of the submerged pyramids. Rock Lake is
glacial, that is one created by Wisconsin glacier, part of the last ice sheet,
whose retreat is usually considered to have occurred at least 10,000 years ago.
North America considered at one time to be virgin territory as far as
archaeological remains are considered is beginning to pose as many problems as
that of its southern portion. L.M.Y.
A New Deal in Geology, Geography and
the Related Sciences, By Rene Malaise. 1970
The mode of evolution and progression of the continents and oceans of
which the earth’s surface consists has been the subject of much speculation
since the inception of geology as an established science in the mid-nineteenth
century. This volume written by a distinguished Swedish zoologist strives to
outline some aspects of the problems posed, largely those of natural science
and offers a contribution towards their solution. Volcanism and earthquakes,
the much debated question of the Ice Ages, particularly the Pleistocene cycle,
are discussed and in addition other geologic activity including the
fluctuations concerning the eustatic changes of se-level and the isostatic
equilibrium of land. A good example of the foregoing is the postulated
subsidence of Scandinavia under the heavy burden of the ice during the glacial
period and its subsequent re-elevation when the ice-sheet eventually waned. Dr.
Malaise does not however subscribe to this hypothesis, a popular one with
geologists, and usually quoted in the textbooks. His objection arise from
conclusions based on the constriction theory of Nils Odher, which depends for
its mechanics on the incidence of internal and external heat that can fluctuate
in accordance with climatic factors, some of which including the process
itself, are described in detail The forgoing over a lengthy period of
geological time either has the effect of depressing the crust, contended to
consist of granite and highly tensile, this basaltic layer extending to a depth
of 700 km. into a huge geosyncline (downward fold) or alternately a
geo-anticline (upward fold) that if prolonged and on large enough scale could
develop into a Orogenesis, a mountain building process. Furthermore Dr. Malaise
challenges the current theories particularly those concerning the formation of
ocean basins including the ones that at present hold the field, namely
continental drift, seafloor spreading and paleomagnetism. On the basis of Nil’s
Odher’s hypothesis hexplains all the manifestations that have affected the
surface of the earth, including as mentioned mountain building, the last great
orogenesis having occurred during the Tertiary, the geologic period preceding
the Quaternary. Paleomagnetism combined with the hypothesis of sea floor
spreading which requires all aseimic areas of the earth’s surface to move as
rigid plates has instigated a revival though diversified, the theory of
continental drift. The foregoing, the first propounded by Wegener postulating
that the present continents including the Americas, were originally part of the
great common continent which broke up during the middle Triassic approximately
170 million years ago. The continental blocks that resulted, floating a fluid
substratum, then drifted apart. That traces of glacial cycles belonging to
earlier geological periods can be distinguished in the Southern regions of
Africa, South America and Australia suggested by Wegener that these regions
were grouped around the South Pole. It was the similarity not only between the
two opposite coasts of America and Africa which can be fitted together, but
also affinities of a paleo-ecological nature particularly during the Mesozoic
that initiated the theory, which South African geologist Du Toit further
attempted to sustain by identical geological structures of the Atlantic coast of
these two continents. Dr. malaise does not deny the similarities in the fossil
assemblages but subscribes to the hypothesis that the two continents namely
South America and Africa, were joined to form with the Afriasian platform and
parts of India and Australia, a large continent called in geological parlance
Gondwanaland. This land area divided in the north by a deep geosyncline known
as Tethys was in its Atlantic region also split transversely under the
precesses demanded by the Odher constriction hypothesis, during a prevailing
warm climatic phase. A syncline was initiated which quickly flooded, most
probably in the first instance as Dr. Malaise states by a chain of lakes as in
the African Rift Valley and from depths after the remainder of the region faulted
and was covered by the sea that became the Atlantic, emerged in the ensuing
Miocene, a great mountain chain which stretched in a ‘S’ form from Iceland in
the North, to Antarctica in the South. This Mountain-chain now again submerged
by many fathoms of water, Dr. Malaise alludes was first made known by
expeditions of the 19th Century, the Challenger voyage under the
direction of Sir Wyville Thomas being one, has been the subject of much debate
ad controversy. The se-floor spreading exponents and some other geologists
regard this enormous Rise which as mentioned, follows the contour of the
continents as a residual ridge though its morphological structure as far as it
is present known is entirely against this premise. Dr. Malaise devotes a
considerable amount of space to this Mid-Atlantic Ridge which as he indicates
and this is substantiated by the large number of soundings that have been taken
within the area widens extensively in the latitude of the Azores. He also draws
attention to the differences in sedimentation on either side of the ridge as
shown by the cores obtained from the sea bottom by one of the expeditions
equipped for this purpose. To the West of the ridge the sediments were composed
of dead shells (Forminfera) now living in the Gulf Stream: on the East side the
sediments consisted mainly of coarse sand and mud identical with glacial
moraine deposits. This indicates that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge must have
separated a cold surface stream carrying icebergs from the warm Gulf Stream
whose origin is still obscure. These conditions could have only been
accomplished if the Ridge had reached above water. In the earlier stages of the
Glacial period this cold current appears to have been prevented from reaching
the south by an ancillary ridge that connected the Azores plateau with the
African mainland. This it is contended affected the temperature of the
Mediterranean, a remnant of Tethys, which again changed when the barrier
was removed. The climatic and the transgressional fluctuations are reflected
in the interglacial shorelines called the Sicilian, Milazzian, Tyrrhenian,
Monasterian and Flandian. It is questionable that the Straits of Gibraltar
were opened during the whole of the Glacial period and there are circumstances
which suggest that the rupture was fairly recent. Dr. Malaise considers that
not only was the Mid-Atlantic Ridge above sea-level during most if not all
throughout the Pleistocene period reckoned in length as 500,000 years though
American Oceanographers on the basis of coring evidence on different parts of
the Atlantic have extended this period to thrice times this amount, but also it
endured at least the part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the region of the Azores
until early historic times. The foregoing without reservation is associated
with Atlantis, which considered to have slowly sunk rather than in an abrupt
flood as asserted by the Greek Philosopher Plato. The interest that Dr. Malaise
envinces in Atlantis is shown by the circumstances that he reviews all the
current theories on the subject. The whole work is extremely well written and
the scientific sections which includes allusions to he Pacific area as well as
the Atlantic are extremely well described and evaluated. L. M. Young 1970 ends
Dr. N. Th Zhirov dies in December of 1970
"His painstaking work and objective scientific approach, set a
standard for Russian Atlantology which the rest of the world will find it hard
to attain."
1971 Begins
The Crystal Skull, By E. Sykes or L.
Young
In the Sept/October number this object was briefly alluded to have
been discovered in a cave. Our information however appears to have been at
fault for Mss Anne Mitchell Hedges now domiciled in Ontario, Canada writes that
it was in fact discovered by her father in a Maya temple in Lubaantun, British Honduras.
The skull which is apparently cut from a block of rock crystal, is life size
and has a movable jaw. Though recently in the possession to a group for
parapsychology experimentation it has been now restored to Miss Mitchell Hedges
and it is understood the skull is destined for the Heye Museum of the American
Indian, New York.
Factoids from the Webmaster-
The pebbles of the Azillians were found at Mas Azil, and Azillian
Lunar markers were found at a rock walls of Canchel de Mahoma, and Abri de las
Vinas which some of the markings recall the pebbles and seem to indicate lunar
significance. There region was from Northern Spain and along Coasts to Northern
France.
The reasons Russians believe that an Asteroid hit 10,000 years ago is
that the Mammoths on both the North American and Siberian sides were wiped out
instantly around this time by some unknown flood of a size that Tsunami was
ruled out as earthquake made or caused only.
Did you know that Serpent Mound, Ohio is on top of an asteroid, and
that there are other locations outside of this in the Gulf Stream and Caribbean
region. One is bordered by the Lesser Antilles and joining up with the Bermuda
Islands. It is described as centered on the Bermudas and encompassing the chain
of Islands from Florida to Haiti as its wall. One is on the Yucatan and Gulf of
Campeche while the last and smallest is in the Mosquito Bay. The by-product of
the strike where all the debris rose to the surface and formed a relatively
coherent mass encircled by the Gulf Stream. In the April/July edition it was
dedicated in 1971 to Meteor strikes and the list of them and the Hoerbiger
theories.
Prehistoric Astronomers, By Leslie Young 1971 cont.
