Atlantis: Location

Atlantis: Location

There have been various areas picked for Atlantis, from Sweden to Indonesia. About every one of them are incorrect. Plato was entirely clear on the area. The majority of the others are, by definition, not Atlantis. As per Timaeus and Critias, the two exchanges which are the wellspring of the Atlantis story, the lost island was past the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Atlantic Ocean. The closest divide of Atlantis was confronting a district in Southwestern Spain called Gadira. This is the locale encompassing current Cadiz (Phoenician Gadir, Roman Gades and Moorish Qadis). Most inquirers disregard this certain point of interest from Critias.

Development of the Africa Plate

Two hundred million years prior, Africa was settled against the eastern coastline of South America. The heft of Eurasia was far toward the North, over the Tethys Sea. Over a huge number of years, Africa pivoted far from South America, framing the South Atlantic and shutting the Western Tethys to wind up the Mediterranean. The North Atlantic had as of now started opening a couple of million years prior between North America and Eurasia.

Sooner or later in the last hundred million years, Africa and Eurasia were moving together far from the Americas. The mid-Atlantic Ridge (a to a great extent disparate limit) was making new maritime outside, adding new material to the plates on either side. A liveliness of plate development for the last 240 million years, supplied by the United States Geological Service, demonstrates that Africa moved northward toward Eurasia, at long last shutting the Mediterranean in the East.

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