{"id":1885,"date":"2010-05-27T20:38:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:11:45","slug":"emiliani-cesare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/emiliani-cesare\/","title":{"rendered":"Emiliani, Cesare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cesare<\/strong> <strong>E<\/strong><strong>miliani<\/strong> <strong>(1922-1995) <\/strong>was b<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Emiliani-Cesare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27216\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Emiliani-Cesare.png\" alt=\"Emiliani, Cesare\" width=\"178\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>orn in Bologna, Italy and is often referred to as the founder of paleoceanography. In 1975, \u00a0at the University of Miami, Emiliani\u00a0reported measuring deep-sea cores, taken from the Gulf of Mexico, that demonstrated a <em>shockingly<\/em> rapid rise of about 325 feet in the world\u2019s sea level \u2014 a rate of metres per decade \u2014 around 11,600 years ago.<b> <\/b>He suggested that the rupturing of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ice-dams\/\">Ice Dams<\/a> at the end of the last Ice Age and the resulting floods may have given rise to worldwide flood myths, such as the biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/deluge-of-noah\/\">Deluge<\/a><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tompkins-peter\/\">Peter Tompkins, <\/a>he suggested that putative Atlantis sites such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a> and locations off the East Coast of the United States could all have been part of the Atlantean empire <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\">802<\/a>.193]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Emiliani was the translator of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kukal-zdenek\/\">Zdenek Kukal\u2019s<\/a> book <em>A<\/em><em>tlantis<\/em> <em>in the<\/em><em> L<\/em><em>ight<\/em><em> of M<\/em><em>odern<\/em><em> R<\/em><em>esearch<\/em> (Earth Science Reviews Vol.21).<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220928211745\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-7185\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220928211745\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-7185\/<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesare Emiliani (1922-1995) was born in Bologna, Italy and is often referred to as the founder of paleoceanography. In 1975, \u00a0at the University of Miami, Emiliani\u00a0reported measuring deep-sea cores, taken from the Gulf of Mexico, that demonstrated a shockingly rapid rise of about 325 feet in the world\u2019s sea level \u2014 a rate of metres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,29,473,159,4114,351,470,132,723,666,722],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-azores","tag-cesare-emiliani","tag-deluge","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-ice-dams","tag-peter-tompkins","tag-plato","tag-sea-level-changes","tag-spain","tag-zdenek-kukal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64947,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/64947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}