Field Notebook: Florida. 1935, 1936
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years, and outm fdl h its present depths, It can be traced to a depth of and the channel extends to 10,000 feet. It is his idea that from about 20,000 - 5,000 ft., after the Atlantic Ocean was formed 10,000 feet or even more, and during this time he Congo built its present main course (possibly to flood north) and channel down to its then low sea level. There [illegible] line at this time great islands existed in the Atlantic (= Atlantis). Veatoh holds firm to his con- dusion based on the topographic form of N.Africa and the Atlantic bottom off to the west of the Congo) that the con- tinents on either side of the Atlantic did all rise and subside, but that they were a great change of sea level. That the Atlantic from Brazil south to the end of Africa subsided more