I do believe it's what remains of Atlantis. Too many coincidences as pointed out by Jimmy on Bright Insight. Love your videos!

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

Could be! Thanks for watching!

@FlattardiansSuck

6 ай бұрын

No evidence of any civilisation in the structure. Fact

@robertmortimer8288

6 ай бұрын

It's at least enough coincidences to make it worth investigate/explore it more! That's better than speculations so we get more clear answers! Either Atlantis was there or it was not!

@FlattardiansSuck

6 ай бұрын

@@robertmortimer8288 read my comment again. It has been investigated...LOOK AT IT!!! .... You don't think the scientific community has investigated it? LOL. Go check actual scientific studies, not KZread

@robertmortimer8288

6 ай бұрын

@@FlattardiansSuck Write som references to studies that has been done at the Richat structure than!

Dude, i love yr drive and enthusiasm for what u do ,the best part is you speak a language i can understand, AUSTRALIAN . 😝

I've been waiting for this one ❤

I’ve heard that this part of the world is also very difficult to properly conduct on-the-ground geography, archaeology, etc. due to potential hostility and conflict between people that live in the area. If this is the case it’s a bloody shame because of almost all natural rock formations on earth, this one definitely appears to be something extraordinary. Also, the fact that it’s another region that would have potentially gone missed had we not had access to aircraft and satellites really does make me wonder. As others have suggested, there are quite a few astonishing coincidences that also need to be looked into. It’s fascinating.

It really is a spectacular formation

It is the capital city of Atlantis in my opinion

@larky368

Ай бұрын

Nah, it's an alien landing strip. Didn't you ever read "Chariots of the Gods?"

I can fully believe that the structure is the source or major inspiration for the Atlantis story, or at least parts of it. If it were visible to ancient man, and not covered by water or sand, it would definitely enter legend as *something*. And it's entirely believable that the legend could spread to the cultures of the Mediterranean, and eventually get incorporated into the story we have now. It'd be very interesting to know if there are any compatible legends in the other direction though. That channel flows west to the coast, and there are and were civilizations there. Is anyone aware of any legends in that area? You'd think that they would have, being the closest and having the most direct access to it. I have a couple of questions about there actually being a population center though. - how thick are those rings? Are they wide enough to support buildings, roads, or food sources? Whether farms, crops, or herds. It's plausible that they could have caught a lot of fish, but enough to support a city of the legend's size? - Does the drainage channel show any signs of soil or vegetation? If the Green Sahara reached here, which it presumably did since there was enough water to carve the channel in the first place, was it lush enough to support animals? I assume it did, but I haven't heard of any animal remains or fossils being found to know what kind or in what kind of numbers. I don't think there's been any kind of serious archeological work done at the site or around it, so any answers or information is undoubtedly decades away.

It certainly has much in common with Plato's description of Atlantis It wouldn't surprise me if in the future it was properly checked out and confirmed as Atlantis

@kristianfagerstrom7011

6 ай бұрын

It really doesn't.

Jimmy at Bright Insight has me convinced it is, in fact, Atlantis.

Thank you

are there any other similar structures on earth?

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

Yup but they're not as magnificent as the Richat is. It's definitely in its own league.

The natural moats and annular spaces between the rings create the "island" of Atlantic perhaps.

I think that even if it's *not* the Atlantis site, its unique structures and situation might have certainly been an inspiration for Atlantis, whether there was actually ever an advanced civilization on the site or not. I think the site is definitely worth a quality evaluation by open-minded archeologists to see *what was there*, without trying to prove Atlantis one way or the other. I do question if we would ever get that. Learning the geology of the structure only shows us how it exists, but not so much how humans may have interacted with it, and if this was ever a bunch of ring structures sticking out of the water, I'd find it very hard to believe that any peoples that came across it *wouldn't* have used it. It's a natural harbor site, if ever there was one, but only if there was a river there, and the ring structures showed above water.

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

I agree! Great comment.

@moonants

6 ай бұрын

That is an interesting idea, that ancient people may have formulated the myth because of the unique geology. I have often contemplated, that Atlantis may very well have existed, just that the "advanced" technology was just not all that advanced.

@jaimepowell5033

6 ай бұрын

​@moonants I can't see why humans, during the "green" Sahara time, wouldn't have taken advantage of the Richat. (A little high ground in a flood plain would be a strong temptation.) As for technology? Look at Jimmy's Brightinsight vids on the accuracy of stone cuts in Egypt. There was something going on there thousands of years ago that we can't do today. Not to mention other places in the world. I don't understand why scientists are crawling all over sites like this.

@moonants

6 ай бұрын

@@jaimepowell5033 Sure, it may have been inhabited, but certainly not a super advanced megalithic society or there would be real evidence. As for Jimmy's issue with accurate stone work - It is well understood that accuracy is not difficult to achieve with ancient techniques, and to say that our modern technology could not do that is just ignorant. There very likely were some fairly advanced communities wiped out by natural disasters, but still no real evidence. Gobekli Tepi is 'evidence' of early megalithic society - Richat is not.

@TheDemocrab

6 ай бұрын

​@@moonants I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't super advanced by the standards of the day, just advanced in a completely different way to the observers whose viewpoints managed to make it through to modern time (bar the many alterations by various translators over the years) in a way that made them seem super-advanced even if what they were doing wasn't more complex than what the observers were used to. Kind of like the theory posited in Dark Emu about how European settlers misinterpreted the Australian First Nations people as uncivilised when they'd just gone about civilisation in a completely different way to how the European cultures had, so they mostly failed to recognise it even while writing down observations that'd help make it clear when we were looking at them with a different perspective much later.

Love your work mate. Recently saw David Stig Hansen on Bright Insight's channel and I'm very curious about what your opinion on his "findings" of megalithic canals etc in Africa.

@stig

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, you should track that dude down. I heard you can just call him Stig.

@OnixMox

6 ай бұрын

@@stig I totally did.. 🤣 I really all your guys content. For the record, I agree with most of what you say. But I'd like to see af many opinions on these things as possible

@stig

6 ай бұрын

I also have to see the opinions of others. I was already subbed to Oz, not just lurking. I lurked over to your channel tho...You dropped my name, so I subbed you.@@OnixMox

Two other areas of major uplifting similar to the Eye of the Sahara (from stumbling across a paper about the Nashville Basin) are the Nashville Basin and the Bluegrass Plateau. I wished I could remember the paper I read that stated it was similar to the Eye of the Sahara, but I found it when I was trying to figure out if the Nashville Basin was volcanic or not. But as for if it was the site of Atlantis, who knows. It meets with many descriptions by Solan and Plato about the location of Atlantis, (being beyond the gates of Hercules) and the position of mountains and rivers, as well as an area that could have been used for agriculture to the north. So, my guess is 30% chance it could have been.

@astra6712

6 ай бұрын

People tend to forget it was described beyond thePillars of Heracles.

@moonants

6 ай бұрын

@@astra6712 Yes, beyond the Pillars of Heracles - then turn left, and take the first floodplain left again.

Please cover the canals recently pointed out by Jimmy. The canals have definitely changed my opinion about the possibilities of the human history of the area

Shoutout to Jimmy from Bright Insight. This is his theory.

I think Randall Carlson's take on the Azores as the location for Atlantis is a more believable probability..., it includes & aligns with Plato's recordings of the location as well...

Yes, I believe it is, but only in the way ancient people thought ancient elephant bones were a Cyclops. They had no understanding as we do of geology and as the structure of the eye of the sahara looks like a city, a legend was born.

So after a 2nd listen, I need to talk about the "flood channel" you mentioned. It's called the Adrar plateau. It's a mountain, not a channel. I wish I could post cross section diagram pics here. It gets almost a 800 feet higher than the richat structure's lowest point. No water escapes the structure. Even though the structure has a mouth, and a 50 foot long canal through the adjacent part of the Adrar that points directly at this mouth (nature is beautiful) , the nearby Ouadane river flows into that mouth and all water in the richat evaporates, not much absorbtion happening. I suggest looking at a topographical map to see what I'm saying about the altitude of the surrounding mountains compared to the round structure which creates a depression inside that flat plateau. I like topographic-map . Also I guess I need to stop using the term volcanic when I head-butt other terms like uplift and dome. You did use the word dome, so maybe I don't understand the difference. Is there a "tectonic dome"?

@MasterTMO

6 ай бұрын

So during a wet Sahara, all water would flow in, and none out, if I'm understanding correctly? That's interesting if right. It means that if there were enough water, the whole thing would be completely under a lake. When the lake receded, it would become visible slowly, presumably in slow stages. But would the water flowing into this location and not out again provide the necessary erosion forces to wear down the dome in the first place? That doesn't sound like a heavy erosion scenario to me, but I have no special knowledge of geology to say for sure.

Thanks man covering this , was ever wondering about it ...alien theories doesn't make sense or any arguments

Thank you for this. One aspect that 100% of commentators have ignored so far is the isostatic decompression which has happened in the period after the glaciers receded. Is their omission warranted, or unintended ignorance, and would the process not be an equation to consider?

@cedarwaxwing3509

6 ай бұрын

Were there glaciers in what is now the Sahara during the Pleistocene “ice ages?” I am pretty sure that continental ice sheets never got that far south, and given that the Pleistocene only began 2.5 million years ago, there certainly wasn’t time for tectonic activity to have moved “the eye of the Sahara” as far south as it now is from a more northerly, glaciated area. Isostatic rebound occurs in areas where thick ice covered continental crust (e.g., the Great Lakes region of the US and in Northern Europe). And if there had been glaciation in the Sahara during that period, it would have left physical evidence like striations on exposed rocks, moraines, drumlins, “accidentals” (rocks that formed far away which were plucked up and transported by glaciers and left stranded when the glacier melted, i.e. a granodiorite boulder sitting in an area where the bedrock consists only of limestone or sandstone) and other evidence. And I’m not sure how “isostatic decompression” would be relevant to the discussion even had it occurred in the area.

@stevegraham3817

6 ай бұрын

@@cedarwaxwing3509 There wasn't just one period, going right back to the Snowball Earth hypothesis, and even during any one of the 26,000 year cycles. And then there is the Pole Shift theories as well. None of those things can be proven or disproven, we just have to figure out if it was possible, and if it was likely.

@JPieman

6 ай бұрын

2 other examples of isostatic decompression that are pretty old are The Nashville Basin and the Bluegrass Plateau. I forget how old they are, but it's not always glaciers, though those two may have had some influence from glaciers. You also need to remember that at one point in time (confirmed by the composition of granite found in areas like Acadia National Park and in Southern France and Northern Spain, that area of Africa wasn't always so far south/near the equator. So, who knows when that isostatic decompression happened. Also, aren't there fossils of tropical plants in Antarctica too? Our world has changed numerous times, with at least two times having only one land mass.

@stevegraham3817

6 ай бұрын

@@JPieman The oil fields at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is thought to have been from eons of seaweed, sea grass, and possible algal type of blooms that were more like floating reeds.

@onbedoeldekut1515

6 ай бұрын

Grasses, algae or seaweed have never accumulated in such amounts to be compressed to the degree that they would result in oil, @@stevegraham3817 Such a possibility is absolutely non existent.

Story of Atlantis was NEVER about a physical place. It was about a perfect city/state government that never existed in reality. People twisted this around and you know how things snowball when a good lie gets even better... Cheers Mate.

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

Interesting take! Thanks for sharing.

@SJR_Media_Group

6 ай бұрын

Plato was a Political Writer not a map maker or geographer. Plato describes perfect harmony with government and citizens who lived in an idyllic city/state. No such government, citizens, or city/state ever existed. We can't find the 'missing Atlantis' because it isn't missing, rather non-existent.@@OzGeologyOfficial

@thehaikulibrarian

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. As Atlantis is a story telling device, it never actually existed and all attempts to find it or claim it as an historical entity are pseudohistory follies.

@SJR_Media_Group

6 ай бұрын

Spot On... Only people still looking for Atlantis are those making money re-telling a lie to a new crowd who will believe anything.@@thehaikulibrarian

@moonants

6 ай бұрын

Most legends have some sort of historical context. Atlantis may very well have been a place, destroyed by flood, but the advanced idyllic civilization is fabricated myth.

Looking at the Richat structure from space, it has the distinctive look of an eye surrounded by an eyebrow, and the elongated shape of an eye socket. What is less known is that this shape became a symbol chiselled in stone, and painted on buildings, and boats through the Mediterranean and beyond. It is UBIQUITOUS. Forgetting for a moment all the other evidence, the symbol has been so commonly known for eons as that of Atlantis. The human and historical link is almost undeniable.

Earths big eye

It was a fertile lush area during the time of Gobekletepe and the other Tepes

There is a smaller but very similar structure to the Richat in the North Sea called the Silverpit Crater which ought to be better known.

No no no. It’s just what it is😎😎😎

I was right it is a caldera, Though I had to ask questions because just a couple months ago a geologist in that area stated she had NO IDEA what it was🤷🤷

That 10-12k years ago thing tends to come up a lot in a number of cataclysm historic events. In another video somewhere it was suggested that Atlantis (Not a space age civ but just a wealthy trading civ) was at Richat, and because the land got stripped down tot he bedrock is why there is no evidence of it. There's a few land features visible that would correspond with flowing water, but not sure about the tsunami chevrons. Then they pointed at salt deposits that are around the area from a possible salt water flood event.

The more information we get about the Richat the more it becomes glaringly obvious that it was once a thriving metropolis. We've found faint traces of an extensive and sophisticated canal system, along with ancient quarries. So yeah, we've found Atlantis, and certain Western governments aren't happy about it. They want the country's resources so the last they want is the place under a global microscope.

David Stig Hansen; KZread channel for a closer look at the Richat structure.

It does kind of match Plato’s description…

Well, have there been excavations done to show that there was a city there? Building structures, water/sewer structures, agricultural structures? If not, then no. You need people to make a city function.

Nah, but there is an ancient city (I sadly fail to remember the name) that actually was buried by mud - via earthquake soil liquidification c:a 3000 or so BCE.

It’s 750,000 years since the last magnetic pole shift , therefore what you see here could we be made made , but it needs a full and expert investigation and with experts from around the world to confirm the findings. Until then we can only summise what is truly there

It is literally a fish eye. If you look due north of the eye, you will notice a gigantic fish shape, that stretches over 4 or 5 countries! It looks similar to an ancient fish called a Coelacanth. The eye and a piece of the flesh of the fish has been torn from the body. No, I am not crazy. Once you see it, you can NEVER "unsee" it.

I think it is the most likely site of Atlantis due to many reasons. What is needed is a proper archeological survey of the structure to either end that idea or add credence to it. The one thing that holds up most people from thinking it may be Atlantis is it's elevation. The thing I don't see people talking about is how much the earth's crust deforms during the glacial maximum with all the ice on the poles and the oceans having much less water in them. Does this weight distribution cause the landmasses to bulge or sink? Is it possible that with sea levels being 300+ feet lower make the Atlantic sea floor rise and the heavier land of Africa sink thereby making the ocean shoreline be near the Richat structure? For the Richat to be Atlantis this has to be explained and shown possible AND geology/archeology needs to show that the shoreline 12,000 years ago was near the Richat. If that cannot be proven/shown or if it is completely dis-proven, then the Richat is not Atlantis. To me that is the linchpin of the argument.

platos Atlantis story is the oldest account of Atlantis we have and it contains many explicit details of its existence and fate. many of the details of the richat don't match up with what geographical, locality and time frame information that can be derived from platos Atlantis writings, therefore its highly doubtful that this is the location of platos Atlantis.

Is it a hydron colider that distroyed atlantis ?

I've been there twice. LOL

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

I watched your recent video with Jimmy. Great stuff!

@stig

6 ай бұрын

Thank You! I plan to make it Thrice.@@OzGeologyOfficial

It looks like the eroded remnants of a pancake dome, like those seen on Venus.

is there evidence of topographic changes...?🤔 ✌️🐝➕

I don't think this is or was Atlantis after listening to Kosmographia. Randall Carlson has laid out some compelling evidence for the mid Atlantic ridge being a more likely site. I think if Jimmy followed up with the Kosmographia team he would agree. Great work mr Oz 👍🏼

In Plato's texts, Atlantis was “larger than Libya and Asia combined,” He also claimed 3000 by 2000 stadia 555 km by 370 km. Richat is only 25 miles across

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

indeed hahaha

@SuperJrKing

6 ай бұрын

From what i understand from sources, Atlantis was the name of the civlaztion/country, and not the name of the city itself(lost city of Atlantis), and back then, what was called was the the area of the middle east and not what we call Asia today.

Definitely an amazing geological feature to our planet, but also definitely do not think any human or other artificial means had anything to do with the feature other then possible sites for previous Human ancestors when it was grasslands as geological sites like this are and always have been of interest to the human inquisitive nature. Evidence of human settlement like campfires, crafts and wares, maybe even some evidence of early structures; 100% possible. Evidence of an advanced civilisation and city that included any of the various ancient, classical, or modern versions of the story; nearly 100% sure we will not find there, or anywhere. Though I am sure the story of Atlantis had some real world era inspiration at the time of its original telling we have blown the story so far out proportion through myth we would likely be very disappointed if we ever did truely discover the site that served as inspiration for Plato or whoever the first to tell the story was. The concentric circles thing is REALLY general when you go far enough back into human history and building of fortified settlements, tall timber walls in concentric circles to make a maze around the settlement to slow and confuse people from other settlements have been seen in almost every culture because that is the easiest way to fortify if you do not have access to stone craft or reinforced masonry technology yet. My guess is in his studies he saw how Greek States advanced city wall technology over the centuries and starting thinking about how impressive stone walls would look set up like old timber walls. Especially if you then keep in mind in his time something like curved stone walls the height of the tallest trees around could only be the work a mastermind and breakthrough craftsmen/civilisation to achieve. Since structures mainly start being built with straight lines after we went from fiber and timber homes to mud and stone because you needed to lay timber horizontal to re enforce and prop up the walls so round or curved was hard and weak; straight and 90 degree angles where easy and strong at least until strong mortar and better stone cutting came along a few centuries later.

This natural formation is a very interesting one for it's circular shaped layers and enormous size. I don't think there is any way this could be the remains of a man made structure, as it is explainable as being created by natural forces and lies within a huge flood plain. That is not to say that people did not settle and live in that area at different historical times. We should be very skeptical of claims by "Atlantist theorists", who claim innumerable sites around the world could be the original site of the ancient mythical city of Atlantis. No such claims have yet been proven and I very much doubt any will.

Dig on the site if there’s signs of a civilization then it’s to say it is

Atlantis was moreso located near the Bermuda triangle.

If Atlantis was real, i can't think of a better place

I reread Plato's story about it. And it's compelling enough to me to point that it was the city of Atlantis. We would find out more if we excavated the mud slide int the Atlantic ocean.

@stephenburrows4250

6 ай бұрын

Have you seen Randall Carlson's theory/take on his belief (with evidence) as to where Atlantis could be, based on Plato's account? kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWGFo5SNm6i2j8o.htmlsi=_5XQk3gJ9ZRiibwi

I doubt it very much.

@stig

6 ай бұрын

So you're saying there's a chance.

@nancyhope2205

6 ай бұрын

@@stig actually, not a chance.

No doubt people would have found it and settled it.

Bright insight sounds convincing but my gut says its not. My theory is even more outlandish... A hyper tsunami that started out in the Atlantic ocean with a plate shift, dropping like a slab, washed into the med a wave nearly a mile high, across portugal and spain; with a dynamic crust su:surface Pwave which accompanied the tsunami, displacing corsica from the mainland and separated from the alpes.. Then washed inti Africa, barley sparing the Atlas mountains and washing back out via the Richat structure flood channel. Leaving this marvellous natural giant pothole as the waters were by this time not so much'water' but the thichest heaviest salty sludge by the time returned to the ocean. Im actually serious

Atantis in Africa?

Mate, Atlantis was a made up place in antiquity, possibly by Herodotus from memory, it’s never been more than a story.

As a direct descendant of the Atlantusians, I have to call you out... The"eye of the Sahara',has nothing to do with us.

It's a giant snail fossil.

Atlantis is on the Azores

I 100% believe Atlantis was a thing, but my money is on the Azores for a location. I hope it's not the Richat because finding any evidence is a hopeless case. The land is scoured clean. At least you could have underwater drones using ground penetrating sonar in the near future at the Azores.

Apparently Atlantis was a city with absolutely NO buildings or structures and the inhabitants used no tools or utensils and had bones that turned to dust after death.

Honestly I don't think it is, I still believe its part of the Minoan eruption event with Atlantis being on the volcanic island that destroyed itself

Yes. The ring count and size don't match Plato's math, but The rings are strangely flat !? All curving up, then all sheered off at the same height ( across 20km) But how could it get to be 400m above sea level (excluding meltwater pulse 1b ) in 12000 years? .. is the Earth expanding? Or an Isostatic imbalance from Greenland and Antarctica (or caribean and india)

@SuperJrKing

6 ай бұрын

I head it could be New Zealandia, when filled by the water from glasers, caused it's antipole(Africa) to rise due to the weight of the added water.

It looks to me that the eye once sat at sea level, the ancient coastline kind of jumps out of me, I believe their was an ancient catastrophe, that quickly and dramatically uplift all of North Africa. If you Google Earth Egypt an Ancient Nile River delta is plainly visible, taking up the whole middle of the country, the valley of the whales is right beside it. Which seems to be evidence it happened quickly, cutting them off from escaping back into the sea. How can such an awesome geologic anomaly as this go unnoticed, as far as I can tell it's never been been noticed or discussed by anyone. This seams very strange to me. Do you know what I'm talking about? Google Earth Egypt, the ancient coastline, and the ancient delta, can plainly be seen, with millions of years of sediments in front of it. It totally dwarfs the modern delta, in every way. Am I way off base, or is what I'm seeing actually possible? It would make for one heck of a video, if it is unknown to scholars, I certainly couldn't find any info on it. If no one else has discovered it, I will get to name it right??? Lol What do you think?

@SuperJrKing

6 ай бұрын

a theory i head is that when the glaciers melted, New zealnday got semreged. Newzealadia being the anitpole of the sera would have caused the saria to rise due the weight of water added. Still needs more resrearch but could be likely.

I think you have to leave the question to archeologists.

@unoriginalsyn

6 ай бұрын

Hi 👋 archaeologist here, having never actually been there and I could not find any dig reports at all, I would surmise it is a purely geological feature. Human settlement leaves some pretty tell-tale signs on the landscape, even if the site was last inhabited a long time ago so in my opinion humans did not have any kind of permanent habitation in or around this feature 👍 I however of course could be completely wrong but I would be very surprised

@stig

6 ай бұрын

How about up to 50 mile long str8 canals through 2000 feet high mountains and quarries everywhere. Even Randall Carlson says it could have been connected to Atlantis. And he's friken team azores.@@unoriginalsyn

Many people are so desperate for the Richat to be Atlantis. It just isn’t . Plato got his story from Solon who got it from Sonchis of Sais who got it from Priests of Amun in Egypt. It talks of the destruction of the Kepchu ( People of Crete) civilisation which was Mount Thera on Santorini. The waters were impassible with mud because the volcano violently erupted. The location of Atlantis is probably near the Azores. That location would’ve been exposed 12,000 years ago. Same for the ocean mountain ranges from Madagascar to Sri Lanka . Most people have never seen an Atlas these days and they’ll look at the ocean on google maps showing nothing there.

Rome may not have been built in a day, but for people too build such a historic and important metropolis, they must have turned up and built it in the dry season before it rained. The level erosion isn't from the occasional sprinkle of rain, anyone coming to that area that has the intelligence to build a civilisation isn't picking that area to build a civilisation... IMO 🤷‍♂️ If anything people usually choose the outside edge of a body of water to build, not the middle of a temporarily dry lake bed.

@officialHbTcs

6 ай бұрын

You do realise that Africa over 10,000 years ago was a much much different landscape to what it is today, right?

@jamm8284

6 ай бұрын

@@officialHbTcs yes it was more green and flooded more often. That's my entire point of my comment 🤣🤣🤣

@jamm8284

6 ай бұрын

@@officialHbTcs unless you think back then it was all flat and not flooding. Then if it didn't flood the weathering wouldn't be like it is and that erosion isn't just from the last 10000 years. More like the last 10-100 million years

Yes, I think this was Atlantis. The gold in the Atlas Mountains, was either the reason it prospered and became the capital city or the reason Atlanteans came and settled here and eventually made it their capital.

Atlantis is in the Northern Sea.

No, definitely not, the "island " was supposed to be in the ocean and outside the pillars of Hercules...I keep thinking of the Minoan civilisation which seem to be connected to Egyptian culture .... even though it was not situated in the Atlantic ocean... a myth. However one of the Phoenician cities Cyrenia had harbour built as per description of the myth. Who knows???

I don't believe it was Atlantis, but a city of the Atlantean empire. I believe Atlantis is sunken beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Randall Carlson has mentioned this same narrative in his podcasts. Each to their own imagination I guess!

Why are you showing it upside down, because you're in the down under?? This MSM explanation doesn't cut the mustard anymore. Nothing emerged. It's a depression. How many other volcanic domes are 45k wide? none. What happened to the 800 foot thick disk of sandstone that is 45km wide ? It just erroded away? This structure deserves better. It's not a volcano nor dome.

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

I never said it was a volcanic dome lol. I said it was comprised of differing rock types, some of which were volcanic. The actual origin of this is a tectonic one combined with erosion.

@stig

6 ай бұрын

Why am I triggered if I didn't hear the word dome? I did watch the whole thing. I'll listen again. I was also confused by the comments on drainage and erosion. @@OzGeologyOfficial

Not location of Atlantis. Red herring

Atlantis wasn't a real place, Atlantis just means daughter of Atlas, aka his daughter Maia. Frequently in the past tradition the nearby mountains had cities, were referred to as a father and a daughter. Adrar is the Berber word, for mountain. And the mountain on the edge of the coast appeared to hold up the sky from the Earth, there on the edge of the world ocean. Maybe the Greeks turned that name into Atlas, and Plato used Richat and that, plus ancient idea of Golden Era ending in Titanomachy, to compose his idea of ancient Atlanteans.

Nope. Not even remotely would i ever believe it. After reading some of Plato I'm positive it was fiction.

Atlantis....not likely.

Many pseudoscientific you tubers like to call this Atlantis. One glaring problem is there are no evidence it was ever inhabited. They say Atlantean culture was helping primitive cultures by shaping and stacking stones. So if they were so advanced why are they gone without a trace? There should be ancient roads, buildings, factories.. but there is nothing. 😂😂😂

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

I agree I don't believe it is Atlantis. I think the Azores makes much more sense.

Something major happened 12000 years ago and enough clues are starting to emerge that a chunk of our history is missing. This may or may not have been the site of Atlantis but I think we're about to enter a period of archaeological discovery.

There was no limestone 1 billion years ago... How can it be part of the dome bedrock. I've seen better renderings of the same data...

@OzGeologyOfficial

6 ай бұрын

There was limestone. Carbonates were still produced back then through a different process and origin.

@justmenotyou3151

6 ай бұрын

Limestone have been found as part of sedimentary sequences dating back 2.5 billion years.

@stig

6 ай бұрын

Isn't the Adrar plateau actually sandstone? The Sphinx is Limestone. From my research, this is sandstone. I'd love more geological facts about this structure too!

I love your videos but there's just absolutely no way that is Atlantis. There are no ruins that I'm aware of. There would be something left but there just isn't.

No, it was never Atlantis, it's a stupid theory

There is no such thing as Atlantis. An ancient myth that survived until today and gets cooked up over and over again. One of Plato's many myths. Bright insight is full of it and should try and read a couple of them, but that would be hard work.

@AlphaKnight-hg2jq

6 ай бұрын

every myth has a sliver of truth, its not like cities being taken by the sea is some unheard of phenomenon. Though this particular theory does seem a bit unlikely, Atlantis flooded, it didn't dry up

@joaom2057

6 ай бұрын

Did you consider the Minoans? We don't know their original name. And there was tremendous volcanic cataclism back then

@nettlarry

6 ай бұрын

@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq Some, not every. This one doesn't.

@313barrygmail

6 ай бұрын

Who paid you? What’s your channel? Let’s see what you think.

@nettlarry

6 ай бұрын

@@313barrygmail Is that for me? Can't be...

There is no Atlantis. And if there was this aint it.

@stig

6 ай бұрын

so negatve borderline toxic

@Taomantom

6 ай бұрын

Not toxic, straight to the point. This is an old myth and the structure has been researched as he stated. Your Assumptions are toxic and not the posting. Have a good and kind day.

Things look heavier on Google Earth