I am going to take a bit of an issue with this article and it relates to the onset and end of the Younger Dryas period (Great Flood). I subscribed to the Impact theory that ended the Younger Dryas...either an asteriod or comet, but at least a bollide of sorts, more in likely coming from the Constellation Taurus. Evidence around the world indicates some sort of impact occured. It is believed that the impact hit in the Hudson Bay Area melting the miles of ice that caused rising sea-levels...etc.
The process, as best as I can figure after reading the scientific papers and listening to speakers is that the event happened over a period of about 1300 years.
First, around 11,800 years ago there was the first impact which meltwater more in likely changed ocean currents bringing on the Younger Dryas (named after a flower that only grew in the alpine/icy regions of Europe). Then, about 1300 years after that there was another event-whether another swing of the remanents of the Taurid stream, or a solar event—The reformed ice in North America was melted in a very swift event that caused massive flooding of a scale that is best described by gelogist Randall Carlson. This brought the ocean levels up by at least 100 m (400 ft). Imagine that the great archeological finds are actually underwater.
Combine the record (Greenland Ice Cores), the date of the Black Matt, (a layer in the soil that indicates a great burning of biomass worldwide) and the history as laid out by Plato in his recitation of Salon’s visit to Egypt...we can see that Atlantis did exist and more in likey disappeared as the weight of the ice melted and like a balloon, the earth rebounded into shape which meant Atlantis going under the waves as North America rose back up...
Regarding tectonic plates. IIRC Mars does not have a molten core—I don’t remember about Venus. I believe there is a connection between the plates and the molten core...
Interesting post.
Mars is one of those ancient phenomena that puzzles me.
Why are 95% of it’s charted craters found only in it’s northern hemisphere?
Why did ancient cultures fear it so much? The “War” Planet. Some astronomers posit that its orbit was shifted sometime in the past and that it used to come extremely close to Earth about once every 75 years or so. Almost as close as the moon.
How did Jonathan Swift know that Mars had two moons when he wrote Gullivers Travels? This wasn’t “discovered” until recently supposedly. Did he know something we don’t? Other ancient cultures also knew about those two moons. Maybe Josephus, Herodotus, or Polybius had some info about it? I probably need to look that up.
Take me for a ‘flake’, but I personally think there may have been some sort of cosmic war in the distant past and it destroyed almost all life in the Solar System. Those craters could have been the result of ‘heavy artillery’ and it would explain the destruction of the 5th planet between Mars & Jupiter.