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Curt Gagel

Schuchert, Charles

Charles Schuchert (1858-1942) was an outstanding American paleographer and palaeontologist and recipient of many schuchertprofessional honours at home and abroad(a). In a paper entitled Atlantis and the Permanency of the North Atlantic Ocean Bottom delivered to the National Academy of Sciences in 1917(b), Schuchert concluded ‘that there was no known geologic data that prove or even help to prove the existence of Plato’s Atlantis in historic times’. He also noted ‘that the Azores are volcanic islands and are not composed of rocks seen on the continent’ and accepted the conclusions of the German geologist Curt Gagel(d) that five of the Cape Verde Islands and three of the Canaries are ‘unmistakably’ continental.

He also expressed similar views in a critique of Pierre Termier’s theory of Atlantis in the Atlantic in a paper published in the American Geographical Society’s Geographical Review of January 1917. The same review contained a similar response from Dr. Rudolph Schuller, a specialist in historical geography.

>(a) https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217390<

(b) https://www.pnas.org/content/3/2/65.full.pdf+html

(c) https://www.jstor.org/stable/207366

(d)https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Curt_Gagel  (German)