The Geology of Greece
by Joseph O’Donoghue
Style: Science / Philosophy
ISBN: 9798350922189
Print Size: 396 pages
Reviewed by Erica Ball
A persuasive have a look at how the Greek panorama is proof for an enormous worldwide flood and the sinking of Atlantis
In the event you’ve ever puzzled why the Acropolis in Athens is such a particular landmark, this e-book affords an evidence you won’t count on.
On this second installment of a sequence on the legendary Atlantis, geologist Joseph O’Donoghue delves into the panorama of Greece to argue it options proof of earthquakes and large-scale flooding from the identical time that the doomed island is claimed to have sunk into the ocean.
This flooding has left behind telltale indicators that may have been acknowledged way back had the examine of such issues in geology and archeology not been restricted by an insistence on uniformitarianism, which solely permits for pure options to be defined by incremental adjustments over lengthy spans of time, slightly than giant catastrophes.
The creator argues that every one the makes an attempt to elucidate the geography of Greece up to now have been unable to satisfactorily tackle the proof that’s plain to see, like boulders on hilltops, oysters and marine fossils on cliffs, plenty of intermingled animal stays, and uprooted bushes buried upright. He argues such issues may solely be achieved by large and fast-moving floodwaters and that they might even be wanted to carve out the large valleys and sweep away elements of the earlier Acropolis, abandoning what we see at the moment.
He has amassed quite a lot of supporting proof, together with research of the contents of underwater basins within the Aegean Sea and Greek river valleys, which have been crammed in methods typical of flooding, however tough to in any other case clarify. Different research focus on the fossilized stays of crops and animals that point out a Greece a lot hotter than at the moment (and undoubtedly hotter than could be anticipated of an Ice Age) which to be preserved as discovered should have been deposited abruptly and rapidly buried. He attracts on many such research, and they’re all totally cited, as are the quite a few images, charts, and graphs.
In his discussions the creator additionally takes to process a number of the standard explanations that attempt to clarify these finds with a uniformitarian worldview—however which defy widespread sense and easy physics. Amongst these are some well-known ones, like that rivers can lower out large valleys over time, that water can erode laborious rock by itself (it may well’t, sediment within the water is required), or that glaciers may very well be accountable, even the place it was a lot too far south for them to have existed.
Because of the rigorousness of the talk, this e-book is extremely really helpful for these concerned with human prehistory generally and the prehistory of Greece and the Mediterranean space particularly. It is going to problem readers conversant in established timelines of geology and archeology, particularly regarding the time frame across the finish of the final Ice Age (approx. twelve thousand years in the past). Readers are forewarned that the dialogue does get technical, so a background in a associated subject is useful, or not less than a willingness to be taught some new ideas and phrases.
Although centered on proof current in Greece, the arguments in The Geology of Greece: Uniformity or Disaster? have far-reaching ramifications for our understanding of phenomena worldwide. If the potential of such catastrophes might be acknowledged, it should open up new potentialities for examine on all continents and in all seas. It might necessitate an entire overhaul on our pondering of the historical past of our planet and of our society. As such, it’s each a name for one more have a look at the potential truths within the Atlantis story, in addition to a broader problem to the blind adherence to a tenet of science that, regardless of all its efforts, doesn’t really clarify what it’s supposed to elucidate.
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