A Lost World? Atlantis-Like Landscape Discovered

[DalTheJigsaw123]

Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this roughly 56-million-year-old landscape using data gathered for oil companies.

 

"It looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore," said Nicky White, the senior researcher. "It is like an ancient fossil landscape preserved 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the seabed."

 

So far, the data have revealed a landscape about 3,861 square miles (10,000 square km) west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands that stretched above sea level by almost as much as 0.6 miles (1 km). White and colleagues suspect it is part of a larger region that merged with what is now Scotland and may have extended toward Norway in a hot, prehuman world.

 

http://www.livescience.com/14974-geologists-remains-landscape-rose-north-atlantic-ocean-56-million-years-sinking.html

[Immortal4life]

Very interesting. The researchers believe there are other land masses to be found under the ocean still. We always think we know so much about the Earth, but the saying that "we know more about outer space than our own oceans" may actually be true.

Edited July 11, 2011 by Immortal4life

[Informer]

 

A landscape is not = Atlantis. Seems to be a lot of speculation at this point.

[Immortal4life]

Here's a comment on that article

2 days ago

 

This makes Atlantis much more likely. At least now we know why Atlantis would have suddenly submerged. Too bad we can't tell how fast these things sink.

Edited July 13, 2011 by Immortal4life