The Eye Of the Sahara is a Geological Mystery "Staring" Into

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The Eye of the Sahara is a Geological Mystery "Staring" Into Space

https://www.iflscience.com/the-eye-of-the-sahara-is-a-geological-mystery-staring-into-space-72548

I believe excavation in the sedimentary layers of the eye reveal the structure was once under the ocean at one time due to the present of sea shells. This doesn't of course prove it was Plato's Atlantis. However it isn't that far from the famous "Pillars of Hercules" near north Africa.

Is it possible it's a meteor crater?

It is nothing more than a naturally-eroded geological dome (not a crater), 40 km (25 mi) in diameter, exposing sedimentary rock in layers that appear as concentric rings.  Igneous rock is exposed inside and there are spectacular rhyolites and gabbros which have undergone hydrothermal alteration, and a central megabreccia.

It is inconsistent with Plato's description of Atlantis, and shows no evidence of a city ever being built on it.

According to Plato the city of Atlantis was built like a bullseye. A circle roughly a mile wide with concentric circles of alternating land and water. Canal-then ring of land-then canal...centered by a central island. The land was connected by causeways with wide avenues.

This Sahara rock formation superficially resembles it because of its bullseye look and rough similarity in size. But its made of rings of solid rock. Not land and dry canals. As Fnord said...it's composed of different kinds of metasedimentary rock formed millions of years ago deep in the earth, and now its exposed as a solid rock dome with alternating bands. No seashells. Nor human artifacts.

Even the location makes no sense in the context of Plato's story.

Hundred miles south (rather then west) of the "Pillars of Herakles" (Gibralter), and hundreds of miles east of the African Atlantic coast you're asking this geologic feature to...(a)be a thriving capital city, and then (b)to sink into the ocean, and then (c) to rise up again OUT of the ocean. And to do all of that without drowning a huge chuck of Africa with it...and to do all of that within recent geologic times (like the last ten thousand years). And all of that...without leaving any evidence of all that happening anywhere there nor any in that region of Africa.

Thats a tall order.

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Interestingly this might be the remains of a once huge freshwater lake. The Richat structure contain well-preserved freshwater fossils. Numerous concordant radiocarbon dates indicate that the bulk of these sediments accumulated between 15,000 and 8,000 BP during the African humid period. These deposits lie directly upon deeply eroded and weathered bedrock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure

The date for the lake does fit with Plato's date for Atlantis of 11,000 years ago or 9000BC.

Don't be so desperate to 'prove' your claim.  The facts will not change for your benefit.  The Richat Structure is an eroded geological dome.  Here is a cross-section:

Atlantis never existed -- there is no valid empirical evidence that it every did.  Thus, there is no credible way to connect a naturally-occurring geologic feature with fictional Atlantis.

Of course, someone who fabricates entire galaxy-spanning civilizations from a few unidentified lights in the sky would likely disagree -- not that it would matter, unless they wrote a decent Fantasy/Fiction story about it.

Off topic but the builders of Atlantis likely were not Greek speaking so probably called their civilisation something else. Also there is growing evidence for civilizations that pre-date the ice age. Civilizations older than Plato's Atlantis have already been found in Anatolia so it's not as implausible as you would have us believe Fnord.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-hi ... pe-0014605

The minimum age for Karahan Tepe is 13,000 years old,.

However I am inclined to be a little skeptical about the Richat structure being the site of Atlantis or "a" Atlantis.

Aliens crashed there and built Atlantis around the space saucer. When discovered by Plato they used the saucer’s still functioning defense system to burrow underground through the sediment causing the current mound by releasing magma and creating the Sahara. NASA knew all about it. Fnord is part of the coverup, he used to work for NASA. (Lookup what “Fnord” really means if you don’t believe me). The government and the Aliens are plotting to sell internet to the unsuspecting public while ruling the world with the proceeds with a secret international and interstellar Cable (remember “Cable TV”?) Elon is in on it too. The only way to stop them is to stop paying for any kind of internet or tv. Even radio is dangerous. And wear an aluminum foil hat (tin foil will not work).

Plato derived the story third hand. It was actually Solon who visited Egypt and saw hieroglyphs in an Alexander temple. The critical part that makes for an interesting story is that Atlantis was built by the children of gods and men which echoes actual Egyptian traditions for the Gaza plateau, Sumerian Gilgamesh epic, Indian hindu texts and South American traditions for the builders of ancient cities. Another curious coincidence is that these builders were also giants.

The Greeks actually had their own tradition of giants who were half god (Hercules) and the old testament of the bible spoke of the sons of gods and daughter's of man creating giants called the nehphilem. All a series of coincidences I guess.