The World Development Federation<\/p>\n
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Global Super Projects Conference<\/p>\n
November 2001<\/p>\n
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Emancipatory Oceanic Macro-engineering: A \u201cNew Atlantis\u201d<\/p>\n
in 21st Century Tunisia-Algeria?<\/p>\n
Richard B. Cathcart<\/p>\n
Geographos<\/p>\n
1608 East Broadway, Suite #107<\/p>\n
Glendale, California 91205-1524<\/p>\n
USA<\/p>\n
(818) 246-8422<\/p>\n
Email: rbcathcart@msn.com<\/p>\n
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There appears to be, minimally, a 1% chance that our world-ocean\u2019s sea-level will rise ~1 meter by the end of the 21st Century, a rise which will lap the Mediterranean Sea\u2019s ~13,000 kilometer-long Basin strand; the crudest estimate of the total cost of coastal- protection (USA2001$1 million\/lineal kilometer) results in a financial burden to the Basin\u2019s tax-paying residents of approximately USA2001$13 trillion! Is it really, then, so difficult for extra-Basin human populations to fathom that geographically important region\u2019s weltanschauung <\/em>of weltschmerz<\/em>? To accommodate this expected 1 meter rise, Greek experts have proposed a 4.5 kilometer solid causeway-barrier dam be emplaced to isolate the Inner and Outer Thessaloniki Bays at an enormous, yet uncalculated, monetary and environmental cost.1\u00a0\u00a0 Such ugly local constructions\u2014emergency \u201ctechno-fixes\u201d\u2014\u00a0may not be undertaken if the Earth-ocean sea-level rise is excluded from affecting all Mediterranean Sea Basin nations (at a modest local or global cost of less than USA2001$10 billion).2<\/p>\n The ultimate form of \u201clandscape architecture\u201d, a term coined circa <\/em>1858, is\u00a0Macro-engineering. To honor the first century of the profession\u2019s formal existence, the<\/p>\n <\/p>\n American Society of Landscape Architects (organized 1899) designated the year 1964-65, beginning June 28, the Centennial Year of Landscape Architecture. However, it was not until circa <\/em>1964 that \u201cmacro-engineering\u201d was neologized and found widespread professional acceptance. The American Society for Macro-Engineering was established in 1982.3<\/p>\n Francois Charles Marie Fourier (1772-1837), in 1808, remarked that human armies of industrial tool-armed persons would boldly subjugate the Sahara: \u201cThey will execute works the mere thought of which would freeze our mercenary souls with horror. For instance, the combined order will undertake the conquest of the great desert of Sahara; they will attack it at various points by ten and twenty million hands if necessary; and by dint of transporting earth, cultivating the soil and planting trees everywhere, they will succeed in rendering the land moist, the sand firm\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 They will construct canals navigable by vessels, where we cannot even make ditches for irrigation, and great ships will sail [on them]\u2026.\u201d4 (A narrow and shallow Suez Canal was first opened to high-seas\u00a0ship traffic in 1869.) By 1877, Donald Mackenzie (? – ?) published The Flooding of the\u00a0<\/u>Sahara<\/u>, a geographical fiasco-tome proposing an excavation from North Africa\u2019s Atlantic\u00a0Ocean strand to the \u201cbelow sea-level central Sahara\u201d permitting an (impossible) submersion of a large area of that hostile hot desert!5 Before Mackenzie, however, heroic French macro-engineers had contemplated a similar plan, but for another locale; their speculated artificial \u201cla mer interieure\u201d was to be situated entirely within modern-day Tunisia-Algeria and was promoted by Francois Elie Roudaire (1836-85).6<\/p>\n Currently, there\u2019s no finer mapping of the ancient Old World than the cartographically standardized Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World<\/u> (2001) edited by Richard Talbot; most of the Mediterranean Sea Basin is topographically illustrated by 1\/500,000 scale maps, although there is no detailed plan of infamous Carthage. The landscape, as far as it can be known today through painstaking geographical and historical \u201cintellectual reconstruction\u201d, including changing sea-levels, is shown as it was during that historical period, not as it is nowadays. The Myth of Atlantis still fascinates our world\u2019s public, as the 28 December 1998 issue of Der Spiegel<\/u> clearly\u00a0indicates; of the many sites proposed for the location of legendary Atlantis that are\u00a0loosely documented therein, only the sketchy circa <\/em>1930 Tritonis Palus <\/em>[\u201cTriton Lake\u201d] scenario devised by Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) comes close to the believability of Robert F. Schmalz\u2019s geo-marine theory.<\/p>\n In 1992, Schmalz retired as Professor Emeritus of Geoscience, having served 32 years as a faculty member of The Pennsylvania State University\u2019s Department of Geology and Geophysics.7 In the February 1976 issue of the College of Earth & Mineral Sciences\u2019 Earth and Mineral Sciences<\/u> (Volume 45, No. 5) Schmalz postulated with \u201cIn Search of Atlantis\u201d that a fabled lost civilization, antecedent to all other Mediterranean Sea Basin societies, once actually existed in the region northwest of the extant city of Gabes in southern Tunisia. He presented a good circumstantial case, not subsequently further documented, that Atlantis\u2019 shallow sea and its seaports became isolated by a localized neotectonic Earth-crust movement (the emergence of a sill near Gabes), resulting in Lake Triton\u2019s subsequent disappearance\u2014its conversion by common coastal geomorphic transformation (natural shoaling) as well as evaporation into the Chott el Djerid, a 15-31 meter ASL elevation intermittent salt lake wasteland\u2014with the highest land elevation closest to Gabes, Tunisia.8\u00a0\u00a0 Might not his theory be investigated more thoroughly when 21st Century Eurafricans eventually erect a Sahara Tent Greenbelt\u00a0covering a part of this dry land9, as proposed by Viorel Badescu and R.B. Cathcart?10 To date, our world\u2019s most spacious greenhouse is situated in an abandoned clay pit in southwest England.11 Rigorous experiments by agriculturalists have proved seawater can be successfully employed to grow commercially valuable food and fiber crops.12<\/p>\n Disregarding the ultimate cause of a sea-level rise, a subject of great geoscientific controversy, one prospect is clear: marine inundation of the Mediterranean Sea Basin\u2019s littoral poses a major threat to the long-term welfare of its permanent human populace. Even a well-regarded science-fiction novelist, James Graham Ballard, has imagined the Mediterranean Sea Basin\u2019s northern strand as \u201cThe Largest Theme Park in the World\u201d, in War Fever<\/u> (1990, pages 73-80). What might stimulate large numbers of rambling northern Europeans to migrate to the Mediterranean Sea\u2019s strand? Gradual development of a killing mega-Greenhouse Effect, foreseen for circa <\/em>A.D. 2200-2400, could become an entirely sufficient cause.13\u00a0\u00a0 Ballard\u2019s over-crowded so-called theme park is a Euro-Disneyesque \u201cLand for the Dying\u201d!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can a \u201cNew Atlantis\u201d be imagined for the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea Basin\u2019s southern strand? Yes!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Besides freshwater (0.2-4% salts) reservoir storage, it is practicable to channel large quantities of seawater (34.72% salinity) into some of our world\u2019s great interior drainage basins that lie below present-day sea-level in order to dynamically control our world-ocean\u2019s volume.\u00a0\u00a0 A natural potential sink adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea is Egypt\u2019s Qattara Depression.14\u00a0\u00a0 An artificial potential sink is envisioned as a now low- elevation region, the most eastern part of the Zone of Chotts, which extends westward from Tunisia into Algeria.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the period from 1957 until about 1988, nuclear energy researchers in both the USA and USSR considered the mundane purposes achievable using mundane tools\u2014peaceful nuclear explosives (PNEs).16\u00a0\u00a0 Founded in 1956-57, Tunisia\u2019s land covers 155,350 square kilometers and is homeland to ~9.5 million living persons (of our Earth-biosphere\u2019s 6 billions).<\/p>\n Sometime before 1962, Tunisian scientists comprehensively proposed a \u201cChotts Depression Scheme\u201d to serially blast huge craters in the Chott el Fedjadj and Chott el Djerid and subsequently inundate the resulting depression with 37.5-38.5% salinity seawater channeled from the Mediterranean Sea. Minimally, ~4,920-5,360 square kilometers\u2014around 1\/30 of Tunisia\u2019s national territory located 25 kilometers west of the seaport City of Gabes\u2014plus the -23 meter Chott el Gharsa was planned for future unnatural ocean water inundation. It was foreseen and contemplated that Algeria\u2019s \u201331 meter Chott el Melrir could eventually be connected too. Planted along the 340 North parallel of latitude, ideally, the colossal channel-depression was to have been formed via <\/em>inexpensive multiple PNEs and the Chotts Depression Scheme was to result in a recreated Lake Triton! Of course, old and buried Atlantis\u2019 archaeological site would be jumbled (rapid stratigraphic displacement and extreme artifact mixing) or destroyed (instantaneously vaporized) by nasty PNE use\u2014literally, a treasure vault violently sprung open and its prized contents highly disrupted and lost. Because of the dry climate regime, the shallow water body therein would evaporate rapidly, increasing its salinity to ~200+% salts, thus producing a continuous flow of sea-water through the channel; Tunisian macro-engineers naturally visualize that cheap and reliable hydro-electricity would thereby be produced as a direct result of this constant current (steady inflow). (The Quaternary history of the salt flats and hypersaline lakes of southern Tunisia is being investigated by Dr. Nick A. Drake.)17<\/p>\n How best to produce hydro-electricity? First, a man-made channel (100 meters wide by 175,000 meters long by 5 meters deep) must be excavated by a floating dredge capable of swiftly and economically removing ~85,500,000-100,000,000 cubic meters of rock and loose Quaternary sediments to join Gabes (population: 250,000+) with Algeria\u2019s Chott el Melrir. The cost for the macroproject\u2019s initial digging phase oughtn\u2019t to exceed USA2001$1 billion. Spoils from the mining, heaped in useful mounds (artificial earth<\/p>\n sculpture)18 by design, form gigantic geometrical berm-bordered ponds wherein seawater might be deposited temporarily (pumped-storage power plant)19 or calcium hydroxide emplaced to absorb carbon dioxide gas from Earth\u2019s atmosphere.20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A single floating excavator can move 50,000 cubic meters of material per day; the first-phase could be finished in less than five and one-half years; the trickiest working moments will come when the automated dredge arrives at the two places where the Canal enters the below- sea-level chotts. Second, several prefabricated floating road-rail bridges21 with pre-installed \u201ctidal stream energy machines\u201d22 ought to be towed into their proper final\u00a0installation sites, and thereafter sunk to form a ship-passable pierced land transportation causeway.23 Rotation of the energy-generation mechanisms within this permeable barrier will thereby produce an interminable electricity supply that Tunisia may wish to sell out- of-country, use itself and share with Algeria. There is a Mediterranean Sea Basin precedent\u2014although not fully comparable\u2014at Italy\u2019s Quaternary resurgent caldera located in the Bay of Naples, Ischia Island.24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A small harbor, Port d\u2019Ishia, was dug during the 1850s by macroengineers who flooded a land-locked volcanic crater that could be connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea.\u00a0\u00a0 Italian workers spent two years digging the very short channel with hand tools, pony carts and wheelbarrows; luckily, they followed the trace of an eruptive fracture <10,000 years old that made their efforts easier.<\/p>\n Excavation and submersion of Chott el Fedjadj-Chott el Djerid and Chott Melrir facilitates profitable commercial coastal and high-seas shippers, encouraging them to serve new ports built along the new strand, perhaps mineral and agricultural exportation would flourish.\u00a0\u00a0 And, barge-mounted deep-drilling oilrigs could float from exploration site to site rather easily. Tunisia\u2019s climate regimes will change, perhaps somewhat\u00a0unpredictably.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Too, it is possible there may be some worries over potential future hydro-seismology owing to seawater loading of the depression\u2019s crust surface since sea- water is less dense than the materials that have been forcefully removed and redistributed. One unique import would be rich, fertile silt obtained at and carried from the freshwater reservoir created by the Aswan Dam; large-scale reservoir desiltation serves two interests because it could prolong the operational period of the Aswan Dam26 and mineral-rich silt, especially if widely spread, could provide suitable soil base material for a barren, arid salt flat in Tunisia-Algeria.27 Ships that now use ballast water, and once used stones, can be adapted to use an appropriately formulated thick mud slurry consisting of Nile River freshwater and Aswan Dam Reservoir sediment. Fourier\u2019s \u201chands\u201d can be supplemented with robust solar-powered robots, off-spring of those NASA R&D has devised and roughly constructed for use in the near-term future exploration of Mars.<\/p>\n Realistically, this inland oceanographic creation won\u2019t be easily predictable in its hydraulic behavior, as the Japanese have discovered with their pre-modification computer models of the Seto Inland Sea.28\u00a0\u00a0 A flooded Chott el Fedjadj-Chott el Djerid-Chott el Gharsa-Chott el Melrir will have many\u00a0\u00a0 of the distinguishing oceanographic characteristics of the USA\u2019s Great Salt Lake29 in Utah and the Salton Sea of California.30<\/p>\n Tunisia\u2019s Gulf of Gabes is the major marine region of energy dissipation for present-day\u00a0Mediterranean Sea tides.31 (Local tides in the Mediterranean Sea generally have a small range.) Strand conditions have changed greatly from those of ancient times.32\u00a0\u00a0 Today\u2019s Mediterranean\u00a0\u00a0 Sea\u00a0\u00a0 level,\u00a0\u00a0 higher\u00a0\u00a0 than\u00a0\u00a0 in\u00a0\u00a0 olden\u00a0\u00a0 times, masks a rubbish-strewn (underwater) seascape and a badly contaminated volume of seawater.33\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As J.M. Coe elucidated, in Marine Debris: Sources, Impact, and Solutions<\/u> (1997, pages 7-14), and to\u00a0our species\u2019 almost everlasting shame, vast regions of the Mediterranean Sea Basin\u2019s continental shelf is burdened with rotting man-made marine debris!\u00a0\u00a0 A strong ocean current moving towards a re-connected Chott el Milrir will, of course, redistribute this junk, garbage and other unidentified stuff! Also, ships balanced using ballast water, and entering the completed Chotts Depression Scheme, can be expected to transfer and deposit plants and animals from around our planet!34 Consequently, there are likely to be\u00a0algal blooms and exotic mineral interactions producing, in effect, a horizontal bubbly lamp [a la the popular Lava Lite] effect; this unique graduated coloration effect ought to be quite noticeable in Earth-orbiting satellite images of North Africa!\u00a0\u00a0 Every vessel passing through the Gabes-Chott el Melrir Canal will generate ship waves and return currents that hit the bank of the Canal.35\u00a0\u00a0 As a result, bank erosion and damage to bank protection structures will doubtlessly occur; unstabilized bank material settles on the bottom of the Canal and makes maintenance dredging necessary. Like the Suez Canal, time-tabled ship and barge convoys will traverse the Canal one-way, with the Chott el Melrir serving as a safe turning basin.<\/p>\n Geopolitical disputes are bound to arise with the inundation of this large watery region!\u00a0\u00a0 Since it will be a very artificial sea, lengthening Tunisia\u2019s present-day 1,148 kilometer-long shoreline and increasing its offshore 8,250 square kilometer sub- Mediterranean Sea area, how ought it to be apprehended by international law?\u00a0\u00a0 And, Algeria\u2019s new inland sea coast must be contiguous with Tunisia\u2019s, subject to foreign control of trade just like Africa\u2019s landlocked states!\u00a0\u00a0 Nowadays, there are strong arguments over the Caspian Sea\u2019s divided geopolitical status!36\u00a0\u00a0 Tunisia shares a 965\u00a0kilometer-long border with Algeria.\u00a0\u00a0 Logically, there must be a strong international agreement (bi-lateral treaty) and binding UNO-brokered international legal accords before a grossly revamped Chotts Depression Scheme ever becomes a new Lake Triton!<\/p>\n changes due to the greenhouse effect: two case studies of \u2018prognostic geology\u2019\u201d, Terra Nova: The European<\/u><\/p>\n Jo<\/u>u<\/u>r<\/u>n<\/u>al of Geosciences<\/u> 6: 306-312 (May\/June 1994).<\/p>\n 2 See: R.B. Cathcart, \u201cInstallation of a Tensioned-Fabric Sea Change Screen at Gibraltar Strait: Creation of a \u2018Mediterranean Sea Oceanarium\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n 3 See: www.tasme.org .<\/p>\n 4 Charles Gide, Design for Utopia: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier<\/u> (1970), page 180.<\/p>\n 5 Grove Koger, \u201cThe Great Sahara Sea: An Idea whose time has come?\u201d, Mercator\u2019s World<\/u> 4: 18-23 (March\/April 1999).<\/p>\n 6 Michael J. Heffernan, \u201cBringing the desert to bloom: French ambitions in the Sahara desert during the late nineteenth century\u2014the strange case of \u2018la mer interieure\u2019\u201d, Chapter 6, pages 94-114, in <\/em><\/strong>Denis Cosgrove and Geoff Petts (Eds.), Water, Engineering and Landscape: Water control and landscape transformation in<\/u> the modern period<\/u> (1990).<\/p>\n 7 See: https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/kis\/schools\/hums\/geog\/nd.htm .<\/p>\n 8 B. Damnati, \u201cHolocene lake records in the Northern Hemisphere of Africa\u201d, Journal of African Earth<\/u><\/p>\n Sciences<\/u> 31: 253-262 (August 2000).<\/p>\n 9 Ping Liu et al., \u201cHistorical and future trends of the Sahara Desert\u201d, Geophysical Research Letters<\/u> 28:<\/p>\n 2683-2686 (15 July 2001). See also: Manfred Geb, \u201cFactors favouring precipitation in North Africa: seen from the viewpoint of present-day climatology\u201d, Global and Planetary Change<\/u> 26: 85-96 (November 2000).<\/p>\n 10 See: Viorel Badescu and R.B. Cathcart, \u201c\u2019Big Tent\u2019 SciFi Architecture: A 21st Century Sahara Tapestry\u201d, (November 2001) viewable at www.wdf.org .<\/p>\n 11 See: www.edenproject.org.uk\/ .<\/p>\n 12 See: https:\/\/members.home.net\/waterplusfood\/index.htm .<\/p>\n 13 E.P. Borisenkov and Yu. A. Pichugin, \u201cPossible Negative Scenarios of Biosphere Dynamics as a Result of Anthropogenic Activity\u201d, Doklady Earth Sciences<\/u> 379: 581-583 (June-July 2001).<\/p>\n 14 Walter S. Newman and Rhodes W. Fairbridge, \u201cThe management of sea-level rise\u201d, Nature<\/u> 320: 319-321<\/p>\n (27 March 1986).<\/p>\n 15 Robert G. Bryant et al., \u201cMarine-like potash evaporite formation on a continental playa: case study from<\/p>\n Chott el Djerid, southern Tunisia\u201d, Sedimentary Geology<\/u> 90: 269-291 (May 1994).<\/p>\n 16 Trevor Findlay, Nuclear Dynamite: The Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Fiasco<\/u> (1990), 339 pages.<\/p>\n 17 See: www.kcl.ac.uk\/kis\/schools\/hums\/geog\/nd.htm .<\/p>\n 18 W.N. Blair, \u201cArtificial earth sculpture\u201d, Zealandia<\/u> 1: 474-481 (February 1890).<\/p>\n 19 Akitaka Hiratsuka, T. Arai and T. Yoshimura, \u201cSeawater pumped-storage power plant in Okinawa island, Japan\u201d, Engineering Geology<\/u> 35: 237-246 (October 1993).<\/p>\n 20 Eugenie Samuel, \u201cScrub the planet clean\u201d, New Scientist<\/u> 169: 14 (31 March 2001).<\/p>\n 21 Richard F. Post, \u201cMaglev: A New Approach\u201d, Scientific American<\/u> 282: 82-87 (January 2000).<\/p>\n 22 D.J. Bullen, \u201cTidal Stream Energy\u201d, Water Power & Dam Construction<\/u> 46: 12-14 (February 1994).<\/p>\n 23 See: https:\/\/news.excite.com\/news\/bw\/010702\/pa-ja-jones .<\/p>\n 24 A. Tibaldi and L. Vezzoli, \u201cThe space problem of caldera resurgence: an example from Ischia Island, Italy\u201d, Geologische Rundschau<\/u> 87: 53-66 (1997).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 25 Leif Enger, \u201cEstimating the Effects on Regional Precipitation Climate in a Semiarid Region Caused by an Artificial Lake Using a Mesoscale Model\u201d, Journal of Applied Meteorology<\/u> 30: 227-249 (February<\/p>\n 1991).<\/p>\n 26 Andrew K. Gabriel, R.M. Goldstein and R.G. Bloom, \u201cERS Radar Interferometry: Absence of Recent<\/p>\n Surface Deformation Near the Aswan Dam\u201d, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience<\/u> VII: 205-210 (May<\/p>\n 2001).<\/p>\n 27 D. Anders Brandt, \u201cA Review of Reservoir Desiltation\u201d, International Journal of Sediment Research<\/u> 15:<\/p>\n 321-342 (September 2000).<\/p>\n 28 Hideki Ueshima and Moriyasu Takarada, \u201cTidal Flow Control as a Means of Marine Environmental<\/p>\n Conservation and Enhancement\u201d, Marine Technology Society Journal<\/u> 29: 67-73 (Fall 1995).<\/p>\n 29 See: https:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/cgi-bin\/editorial\/printversion.cgi?storyid=1150490216354&breadcru<\/u> .<\/p>\n 30 Kim A. O\u2019Connell, \u201cThe Forgotten Sea\u201d, Landscape Architecture<\/u> (February 2001) pages 50-54.<\/p>\n 31 M.N. Tsimplis, \u201cA Two-dimensional tidal model for the Mediterranean Sea\u201d, Journal of Geophysical<\/u><\/p>\n R<\/u>esearch<\/u> 100: 16223-16239 (1995)<\/p>\n 32 R.P. Paskoff, \u201cModifications of Coastal Conditions in the Gulf of Gabes (Southern Tunisia) since<\/p>\n Classical Antiquity\u201d, Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie<\/u> SB81: 149-163 (1991).<\/p>\n 33 B. Guillaumont, \u201cPollution Impact Study in Gabes Gulf (Tunisia) Using Remote Sensing Data\u201d, Marine<\/u><\/p>\n T<\/u>ec<\/u>hn<\/u>o<\/u>logy Society Journal<\/u> 29: 46-58 (1995).<\/p>\n 34 See: https:\/\/invasions.si.edu\/ballast.htm ; https:\/\/www.invasivespecies.gov and https:\/\/www.globallast.imo.org .<\/p>\n 35 A primary wave system is built up in the form of a pressure maximum at the bow and the stern of a moving ship, and a pressure minimum develops along the hull of the vessel. This distribution of pressure will cause a water level elevation at the bow and a drop midships. As a consequence of the pressure distribution of the primary wave system, a secondary wave system builds up with shorter wave periods compared with the long wave periods of the primary system. The whole process results from the complex<\/p>\n interaction of both wave systems.<\/p>\n 36 Steve LeVine, \u201cSea or Lake? Hunt for Caspian Oil Stokes Border Feuds And Arcane Theories\u201d, The<\/u><\/p>\n Wall<\/u> Street Journal<\/u> CCXXXVIII: A1-A2 (3 August 2001).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Development Federation Global Super Projects Conference November 2001 Emancipatory Oceanic Macro-engineering: A \u201cNew Atlantis\u201d in 21st Century Tunisia-Algeria? Richard B. 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