Richat Structure — Attraction in Maghreb

Surreal geological formation called "Eye of the Sahara" in Mauritania. " Richat Structure". Description: The Richat Structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical dome with a diameter of 40 kilometres (25 mi). The sedimentary rock exposed in this dome ranges in age from Late Proterozoic within the center of the dome to Ordovician sandstone around its edges. The sedimentary rocks composing this structure dip outward at 10–20°. Differential erosion of resistant layers of quartzite has created high-relief circular cuestas. Its center consists of a siliceous breccia covering an area that is at least 30 kilometres (19 mi) in diameter.35]

Exposed within the interior of the Richat Structure are a variety of intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks. They include rhyolitic volcanic rocks, gabbros, carbonatites and kimberlites. The rhyolitic rocks consist of lava flows and hydrothermally altered tuffaceous rocks that are part of two distinct eruptive centers, which are interpreted to be the eroded remains of two maars. According to field mapping and aeromagnetic data, the gabbroic rocks form two concentric ring dikes. The inner ring dike is about 20 m in width and lies about 3 km from the center of the Richat Structure. The outer ring dike is about 50 m in width and lies about 7 to 8 km from the center of this structure. Thirty-two carbonatite dikes and sills have been mapped within the Richat Structure. The dikes are generally about 300 m long and typically 1 to 4 m wide. They consist of massive carbonatites that are mostly devoid of vesicles. The carbonatite rocks have been dated as having cooled between 94 and 104 million years ago. A kimberlitic plug and several sills have been found within the northern part of the Richat Structure. The kimberlite plug has been dated to around 99 million years old. These intrusive igneous rocks are interpreted as indicating the presence of a large alkaline igneous intrusion that currently underlies the Richat Structure and created it by uplifting the overlying rock.[36

Spectacular hydrothermal features are a part of the Richat Structure. They include the extensive hydrothermal alteration of rhyolites and gabbros and a central megabreccia created by hydrothermal dissolution and collapse. The siliceous megabreccia is at least 40 m thick in its center to only a few meters thick along its edges. The breccia consists of fragments of white to dark gray cherty material, quartz-rich sandstone, diagenetic cherty nodules, and stromatolitic limestone and is intensively silicified. The hydrothermal alteration, which created this breccia, has been dated to have occurred about 98.2 ± 2.6 million years ago using the...

Plato mentioned a canal connecting to the sea/ocean, not far away from here. Plato got his info from the Library of Alexandria, that then had the world´s most comprehensive and oldest writings. He mentioned that Atlantis was the center of trading routes, and had elephants walking around there. Timbuktu, not far away from here, was merely 700 years ago the world´s wealthiest trading post, though this Timbuktu is now just an outback settlement. Times are changing, cities turn to rubble, never-lands turn to metropoles. So this all makes sense.

Furthermore about 9000-10000 years ago a tsunami wiped out Atlantis, and possibly also wiped out Egypt, so the whole of Northern (present-day) Sahara, which was once a tropical area - that does not sustain well with salty ocean water. Might explain, if the pyramids are indeed much older than some theorists suggest (hey carbon dating on stones.. gimmy a break), so possibly from same epoque as Atlantis. The pyramids (without any ancient Egyptian decorations, etc) are so huge they managed to survive such tsunami.

Atlantis, being a city/empire of trade, wealth, well a tsunami of salt water might wipe out all. Just imagine what would remain if a tsunami of 100´s of meters high (by eg. an enormous natural cause tsunami by earth quake, or an induced 100MT Tsarina bombe ignited in the Atlantic ocean?) would ´attack´ the US east or west coast, what would...

The Richat Structure is one example of an alkaline ring formation.. but here's the kicker: these rings are loaded with minerals. If Atlantis was once the center of civilization, it only makes sense it would've been built on a land rich with natural resources. Every powerful civilization in history starts with geography that can support wealth and dominance.

So if Atlantis was the most advanced society of its time, why wouldn't others copy the formula all over the world?

Plato may have told us about one Atlantis, but maybe that was just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe Atlantis wasn't a city.. maybe it was a civilization model. A network of powerful cities around the world, built on rich land, advanced science, and high-level trade. These weren't isolated cultures. They were CONNECTED, thriving off a winning formula.

Now here's the part that hits different: What if history isn't just scattered. What if it was scattered on purpose? A world that once knew how to live in harmony, tapping into the Earth's full potential? That's a threat to today's systems of control. Modern corporations and power structures survive on division, dependency, and distraction. A unified world? That KILLS the monopoly. That destroys artificial scarcity.

Maybe Atlantis didn't sink. Maybe it was taken apart.

What's left now? Ruins. Myths. And a few breadcrumbs for the ones still paying...