Investigations by Dr . C . H�bscher of the Institut f�r Geophysik, Universit�t Hamburg, Germany, and others of the salt tectonics and mud volcanism within the Cyprus Basin, eastern Mediterranean Sea, demonstrated that the features which Sarmast interprets to be Atlantis consist only of a natural compressional fold caused by local salt tectonics and a slide scar with surficial compressional folds at the downslope end and sides of the slide.
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"Born in Rhodesia ( today, Zimbabwe ), Jackson initially studied old, hard Precambrian gneisses before moving to Texas and eventually becoming immersed in, as he called it, a subsurface world of very young, soft rocks . He came to the Bureau in 1980 and in 1988 was instrumental in the creation of the Bureau s first Industrial Associates program, the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory ( AGL ), founded to investigate the then-poorly-understood world of salt tectonics.
