According to Plato Atlantis a large island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean disappeared around 11,000 BC after a large volcanic eruption followed by massive earthquakes. Just a coincidence, who knows.
If those guys are right, it would’ve been one heck of an explosion.
Scientists are to sail to the mid-Atlantic to examine a massive “open wound” on the Earth’s surface. Dr Chris MacLeod, from Cardiff University, said the Earth’s crust appeared to be missing across an area of several thousand square kilometres.
The hole in the crust is midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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