psychoceramics: Expedition in Search of Atlantis

["Bruce Baugh" <bruce-b--@s--.net>]

From: i--@i--.ru
Subject: Expedition in search of Atlantis    http://www.imh.ru/
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 03:02:08 +0300
Organization: Institute of Metahistory
Newsgroups: sci.geo.oceanography

We are glad to inform you that the Institute of Metahistory, an
autonomous non-profit organization, and P.P. Shirshov Institute of
Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences within the framework of the
Agreement on Cooperation between them are beginning preparations for the
expedition planned for the summer of 1998, with the aim of verifying
Viatcheslav Koudriavtsev's hypothesis suggesting that Plato's Atlantis
was located on the Celtic Shelf, with the capital city in the region of
the contemporary Little Sole Bank 130 nm to the south-west of England,
and submerged as a result of glacio-eustatic rising of the sea level and
compensatory isostatic subsidence of that area at the end of the last
glaciation, precisely at the time Plato spoke of in "Timaeus" and
"Critias". The hypothesis was put forward on the basis of analysis of
descriptions of Atlantis in Plato's dialogues and their comparison with
the modern data of geology, oceanography and paleoclimatology.

You can find out more about the Institute of Metahistory and the
proposed expedition at the Institute of Metahistory Web site at
http://www.imh.ru/ . The latest (fourth) version of Viatcheslav
Koudriavtsev's paper "Atlantis: New Hypothesis" can also be found there.
The basic distinction of this version from the previous ones consists in
that it contains excerpts from Diodor of Sicily about Atlantis and the
paleogeographic aspect of the hypothesis is more profoundly elaborated.
Comments on the third version of the paper by one of Russia's prominent
paleogeographers Professor M.G. Grosswald of the Institute of Geography
of Russian Academy of Sciences, also appear on the site.


Sincerely yours,

Valentina Schitz

Assistant to Director
of the Institute of Metahistory


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Bruce Baugh
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