Spartel Bank
It vanished under the surface approximately 12,000 years ago due to rising ocean levels from melting ice caps after the last Glacial Maximum. It has been proposed by researchers Jacques Collina-Girard and Marc-André Gutscher as a site for the legendary lost island of Atlantis. In follow-up correspondence, however, Gutscher indicated that the island could not have been Atlantis, referring to Plato's description of a Bronze Age society, which Spartel could not have supported at the time. A detailed review in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review comments on the discrepancies in Collina-Girard's dates and use of coincidences, concluding that he "has certainly succeeded in throwing some light upon some momentous developments in human prehistory in the area west of Gibraltar. Just as certainly, however, he has not found Plato's Atlantis."
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- ^ Ornekas, Genevra (July 22, 2005). "Atlantis Rises Again". Science.
- ^ Gutscher, Marc-André (2005). "Destruction of Atlantis by a great earthquake and tsunami? A geological analysis of the Spartel Bank hypothesis". Geology. 33 (8): 685–688. doi:10.1130/G21597AR.1.
- ^ Gill, N.S. (October 5, 2018). "Atlantis as It Was Told in Plato's Socratic Dialogues Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine". ThoughtCo.
- ^ Nesselrath, Heinz-Guenther (September 2009). "Jacques Collina-Girard, L'Atlantide retrouvée? Enquête scientifique autour d'un mythe". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Paris: Éditions Belin - pour la science: 223.
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