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1951
The Theory of Tides and the Problem of
Atlantis, By Prof. N. Boneff
This paper constitutes an amplification of a theory put forth in Oct. 1949,
Vol. 2, No. 4.
It was originally published in the
In a pervious paper, the writer postulated that the lunar craters were
probably of organic origin, though certain of them may have been caused by
meteorites. It is now submitted that the loss of Atlantis may have been due to
extra-terrestrial causes. The Atlantis story is mainly based on the two
dialogues of Plato: the Timaeus and the Critias, and although Aristotle distrusted their authenticity
such writers as Posedonius and Strebo
were fully conviced. While it is possible that the
details of the social and political life of Atlantis corresponded to the ideals
of Plato himself, there seems no doubt the story of the catastrophe corresponds
largely to historical truth, as ferquently happens in
cases where the popular imagination has been inspired by great manifistations of natural forces. For example, although the
origin of Meteor Crater in
If, at the time of the Atlantean disaster, the
earth had been approached by an Asteroid, it might have been sufficient to
cause a tide of a magnitude such as to swamp the Atlantean
Continent, and to break open the Pillars of Hercules, and to flood the
Mediterranean basin: particularly if the asteroid itself were to have plunged
into the earth instead of passing off at a tangent. The Mid-Atlantis Ridge and
the varying depths in the Atlantic Ocean confirm the opinion of Stille (The Growth and Decay of Continents-1935), who says
that the Atlantic appears as "als ein grosses Destruktions feld, ein Fekd
der Funsenkung und des Einbruchs": an area of great destruction, a field of sinkings and of breakings in. The writer considers that the
Ridge is the backbone of Atlantis, and that the body of the continent and of
the asteroid are scattered over the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, and on them
rests the organic ooze (Globigerinenschlamm)-E. Kayser, Lerbuch der allgemeinen Geologie, p. 620-22.
The
City of Brass, by Egerton Sykes
