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Google Earth Used to Locate Lost City of Atlantis
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by Tina Kells | February 20, 2009 at 01:10 pm
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For those of you out there who still don't believe Google is Big Brother take a look at the latest "discovery" made using Google Earth technology. First police are arresting drug traffickers with Google Earth data , then treasure hunters find sunken gold with the tool, and now the free service may have exposed the lost city of Atlantis.
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While using the Google Earth - Google Ocean service aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford noticed a grid on the ocean's floor. Bamford noticed the odd pattern in an area called the Madeira Abyssal Plane, one of the areas once proposed by Plato as the site of the sunken city of Atlantis.
The “grid” showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys.Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University — and one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantis — called it “fascinating”.
He said: “The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look.”
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at 00:28 on February 22nd, 2009
This was something which i created for a group which i belong too.this is how i imagined the Lost City to look like.
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at 03:34 on February 22nd, 2009
If you measure the sides of the "city" you will see that it is made of two 345 triangles. 100miles x 75 miles x 125 miles.
at 03:35 on February 22nd, 2009
I think someone at Google is pulling our plonkers.
at 17:34 on February 23rd, 2009
The General Bathymeric Chart of the Oceans community have made an announcement on 'Atlantis found on Google Earth' at http://www.gebco.net/about_us/news_and_events/
The GEBCO_08 Grid, GEBCO's recently released 30 arc-second global bathymetric grid, has been used in Google Earth 5.0 as a foundation layer for its global 3D model showing the shape of the seafloor.
The grid has been developed by combining quality-controlled ship-track soundings with interpolation between the soundings guided by satellite-derived gravity data. The data set is available to download from the web in netCDF.
at 07:40 on February 24th, 2009
That's just the driveway to the real Atlantis. Keep looking to the left...
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at 14:24 on February 25th, 2009
The "lines" seen in Google Maps on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 31°15'15.53" N, 24°15'30.53" W. that are being touted as "Atlantis" is the grid pattern along which data was collected during the Tydeman 80 and Tyro 82 cruises. These grid patterns correspond exactly to the so-called "Atlantis" in Google Earth are shown in figure 1 of:
Alibés, B., M. Canals, B. Alonso, S. M. Lebreiro and
P. P. E. Weaver, 1996, Quantification of Neogene and
Quaternary sediment input to the Madeira Abyssal Plain.
Geogaceta. vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 394-397. ISSN: 0213683x.
This paper can be downloaded from:
http://www.sociedadgeologica.es/archivos/geogacetas/Geo20%20(2)/Art36.pdf
This area was studied as part of research into the use of abyssal plains for the disposal of radioactive waste.
This is discussed in:
Freeman, T. J., C. N. Murray, T. J. G. Francis, S. D.
McPhail, and P. J. Schultheiss, 1984, Modelling
radioactive waste disposal by penetrator experiments
in the abyssal Atlantic Ocean. Nature vol. 310,
No 5973, pp. 130-133, doi:10.1038/310130a0
Abstract at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v310/n5973/index.html
and in:
Searle, R. C., S. R. J. Williams, Q. J. Huggett, R. G.
Rothwell, P. J. Schultheiss, and P. E. E. Weaver, P. P.
E., 1987, The geology of the Madeira Abyssal Plain:
further studies relevant to its suitability for radioactive
waste disposal. Wormley, UK, Institute of Oceanographic
Sciences Deacon Laboratory, 86pp. (Institute of
Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory Report, 250)
Link to this PDF file found in "e-Print Soton, University of Southhampton, Year: 1987" at:
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/15118/
PDF file at:
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/15118/01/250.PDF
In addition, this so-called "Atlantis, was part of the study area for Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) Leg 157. The cores taken from ODP drill sites 950, 951, and 952, within this alleged "Atlantis" completely refute any arguments that this area was at any time above sea level. Go see:
Schmincke, H.-U., Weaver, P.P.E., Firth, J.V., et al.,
1995. Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 157: College Station, TX
(Ocean Drilling Program). PDF files at:
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/157_IR/157TOC.HTM