Mysteries Beneath the Sea

Evolution, Catastrophism, Prehistory, Atlantis, Earth Sciences, Mediterranean, Plato

Contents

About the book & the author 3

Source 5

Title 6

Copyright 7

Contents 8

1 A New Look At The Earth 10

2 The Creation Of The Great Ocean Basins 18

3 Ridges, Rifts, And Trenches 39

4 Continental Drift 53

The main objections to continental drift as leveled by the doubters 60

Biological and Paleontological Evidence (+ and —) 65

Geologic and Climatologic Evidence 66

Geophysical Evidence 68

5 Up-And-Down Land Bridges 70

6 Grand Ganyons Beneath The Sea 82

7 Beyond The Gates Of Hercules 94

Unusual practices, often employed as proofs by the Atlantists 101

Tartessos? 104

Atlantis within the Mediterranean? 105

West of Gibraltar? 109

The story of the Jesmond and Captain Robson (1882) 110

Bahamas, 1968 111

8 The Womb Of Life? 113

Type 2 Life Experiments 120

The “natural” evolution of inert matter into life. 122

9 Crises In The Evolution Of Life 131

Acceptable causes of extinction by Uniformitarians 136

Biological extinctions correlated in time with reversals of the magnetic field. 138

The essentials of an integrated Catastrophic hypothesis. Catastrophism. 142

10 Living Fossils And Sea Monsters 147

11 Recapitulation 165

Evidence & Inferences 168

Index 170