Emiliani, Cesare

Cesare Emiliani (1922-1995) was born in Bologna, Italy and is often referred to as the founder of paleoceanography. In 1975, while at the University of Miami, Emiliani drew attention to evidence from Gulf of Mexico deep-sea cores for rapid post-glacial sea-level rise. He suggested that major freshwater releases associated with the final deglaciation may have contributed to widespread flood traditions(a).

When he also remarked casually that this was exactly the time Plato had given for the fall of Atlantis his offhand remark was met with severe comments from his peers.

In conversation with Peter Tompkins, he suggested that putative Atlantis sites such as the Azores, Spain and locations off the East Coast of the United States could all have been part of the Atlantean empire ^[802.193].

Emiliani was the translator of Zdenek Kukal’s book Atlantis in the Light of Modern Research (Earth Science Reviews Vol.21).

^(a) http://web.archive.org/web/20220928211745/https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/archive-7185/