The Marine Geology of the Atlantic Is Confirming What Plato Described 2400 Years Ago.

The timing Randall identifies is not coincidental. A rapid pulse of sea level rise occurring simultaneously with Plato's account of Atlantic islands sinking due to seismic events is the kind of convergence that demands geological investigation rather than philosophical dismissal. Randall went directly to the marine geology and oceanography of the Atlantic Ocean basin - and what he found there is striking.

The evidence of major subsidence on the floor of the Atlantic is overwhelming - and it is not evenly distributed. It concentrates along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, precisely the geological feature that Randall has identified as the most likely location of the Azores microcontinent that may have been above sea level during the late glacial maximum. Plato was not describing a metaphor or a moral fable. He was, Randall argues, recording a geological event - the rapid subsidence of Atlantic landmasses during a period of catastrophic sea level rise - that the marine geological record is now independently confirming thousands of years after he first wrote it down.