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    [title] => The Legend of Atlantis and the Science of Geology: Volume 1
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    [synopsis] => This first volume begins with a general introduction to the overall series, and describes the motivations that led to its writing and the aims and methods adopted. A general description of the "science of geology" as we know it today is included, as well as a description of the various theories and factions involved. A brief description of each volume of the series is also included. The question of Atlantis is generally answered in the first six volumes, with confirmatory evidence included in volume 7. The remaining volumes are devoted to various theories of geology, wherein they are tested for validity. The solution to the Ice Age mystery is presented in Volume 11, while Volume 12 brings everything together in an overarching theory of the earth. This overarching theory represents a new geological history of the earth, quite at odds with the present one.

	Chapter 1 begins with an examination and analysis of Plato's Atlantis legend from the point of view of the earth sciences, and we extract all pertinent sections comprising such information. The result is the geology we examine in chapter 2.

	Chapter 2 analyzes and discusses the evidence, including the description of the island continent, its rocks, plants animals, climate and location, and also the catastrophe that supposedly sank it. We include some other Greek legends pertaining to catastrophe or the Atlantic in this chapter also.

	Chapter 3 discusses classical or ancient opinion on the legend, especially that of Aristotle, focusing on any discussion of its anciently considered validity or otherwise, as well as any other opinion regarding lands in the Atlantic, or beyond.

	Chapter 4 discusses modern opinion beginning with students of the very classics we discussed in chapter 3. Opinion here concerns the literary aspects of the legend and knowledge of Plato and his other writings, as well as on his life. We will see that most dismiss the legend but a significant minority cannot find good grounds for doing so, and refuse to dismiss it.

	Chapter 5 discusses the legend from the point of view of philology, which concerns the language and structure of the legend and it is compared with other Greek writings. 

	Chapter 6 discusses flood and catastrophe myths in general and from all over the world, and a section on astronomical mythology is also included, especially as it pertains to earthly catastrophe. 

	Chapter 7 concerns a subject closely associated with that of chapter 6, which is the concept of world ages, each of which is brought to an end by a great catastrophe, often or always involving the heavens.

	Chapter 8 is the first of three chapters that deals with geomythology, the discipline in which official academia deals with myths and legends that contain a geological component. Unfortunately we will find that the main aim of this new discipline is to dismiss all such myths as the imaginings of primitive minds.

	Chapter 9 is devoted to Native American myths that were a particular focus of geomythology, and we will discover that official geology was less than perfectly honest in its treatment.

	Chapter 10 will come as no surprise in that it is a critique of the discipling of geomythology, and its practitioners. We will, however, learn a lot about our academic geologists and their behavior.

	This being the last chapter, a brief conclusion follows, summarizing our findings. We have finished with mythology at this point apart for some brief mentions and references in the ensuing volumes.

	An Epilogue is included to introduce the main camps in the catastrophism versus uniformitarianism battle that essentially comprises the rest of the series. I introduce some major figures from the catastrophist side, along with some samples of their writings. Given the prominence of Charles Lyell on the uniformitarian side, I focus a bit more on him and include some excerpts from his books, which I analyze and discuss, and I can assure the reader that my comm
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    [subtitle] => Atlantis and Catastrophe: Myth or Reality?
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