%0 Journal Article
%T The Legend of ¡°Atlantis Legend¡± on Santorini Contribution to the Geology of Santorini
%A Vaios Avdis
%J Open Journal of Geology
%P 269-275
%@ 2161-7589
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojg.2023.134012
%X Santorini has attracted the attention of both Geoscientists and Archeologists. The numerous high-angle faults of small dip-slip displacement were ignored by the geoscientists. The formations of domes by high-angle faults were also ignored. The discovery of a buried town, Akrotiri-with excellent buildings and artifacts, by Archaeologists and the destruction of the flourishing Minoan civilization and Knossos (Crete) in c. the same era caused a lot of interest. Plato in his ¡°Dialogues¡± of Socrates with Kritias and Timaeus talked about a catastrophe of the island of Atlantis. Galanopoulos, who was the first and Archeologists suggested that the ¡°Legend of Atlantis¡± was associated with the fall of huge Areas in Santorini, due to the ¡°vacuum¡± after the gigantic amounts of ejecta. They miscalculated the amount of volcanic ejecta and misinterpreted the lineaments on the walls of the so-called ¡°Caldera (s)¡± due to pseudo-layering. The author using the importance of the high-angle faults proves that the topography is mainly the result of faulting and neither of erosion nor of volcanism. The juxtaposed slopes of Thira-Thiresia formed fold-like structures and there was not any caldera collapse.
%K Domes
%K Solidified Volcanics
%K Faults
%K Pseudo-Layering
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