{"id":4052,"date":"2010-06-12T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T09:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/termier-pierre\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:34:12","slug":"termier-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/termier-pierre\/","title":{"rendered":"Termier, Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierre<\/strong> T<\/strong>ermier <\/strong>(1859-1930)<\/strong> was a French geologist who analysed basaltic lava dredged up from the Atlantic seafloor 500 miles north of the Azores<\/a> in 1898. Termier was confused \"termier1\"<\/a>when he found that the sample was vitreous rather than crystalline. Termier believed that this indicated lava which had cooled above sea level and was subsequently submerged.\u00a0Since lava disintegrates after 15,000 years, Termier was forced to conclude that there had been volcanic activity above sea level in the relatively recent past, perhaps coinciding with the destruction of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

In 1912 Termier delivered a lecture[<\/sup>574<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> to the Institut Oc\u00e9anographique(b)<\/sup> in which he outlined his belief that Atlantis had been located in the Atlantic, a machine translation in English is available here(c)<\/sup>. A brief 9-page article by Termier, entitled N<\/em>ew<\/em> L<\/em>ight<\/em> on the<\/em> L<\/em>ost<\/em> A<\/em>tlantis, <\/em>has\u00a0been reprinted by Kessinger Publishing. Termier also addressed the Smithsonian Institute who published his text in their 1915 annual.<\/p>\n

In January 1917 a firm rebuttal of Termier\u2019s ideas was written by Charles Schuchert<\/a> of Yale University and published in G<\/em>eographical <\/em>R<\/em>eview, <\/em>however, the journal also published a favourable review by Rudolph Schuller <\/a>in the same edition(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

In 1924, Termier he published La D\u00e9rive des Continents, <\/em>a paper in which he rejected Wegener\u2019s theory of \u2018Continental Drift\u2019 as fanciful.<\/p>\n

Although Termier\u2019s claims are still quoted by some as factual, their scientific basis has been gravely undermined long ago, further weakening the case for Atlantis in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/207366?seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup>\u00a0https:\/\/fr.wikisource.org\/wiki\/L%E2%80%99Atlantide_(Pierre_Termier)<\/a>\u00a0 (French)<\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190825085408\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/document-250911-n\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pierre Termier (1859-1930) was a French geologist who analysed basaltic lava dredged up from the Atlantic seafloor 500 miles north of the Azores in 1898. Termier was confused when he found that the sample was vitreous rather than crystalline. Termier believed that this indicated lava which had cooled above sea level and was subsequently submerged.\u00a0Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,2259,29,2460,819,1060,2534,5301],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-atlantis","tag-azores","tag-charles-schuchert","tag-continental-drift","tag-pierre-termier","tag-rudolph-schuller","tag-smithsonian"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65176,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/65176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}