This subscribers-only article concludes the first phase of THC's research in Bimini. The initial phase consisted of an effort to validate that part of Cayce reading 364-3 which goes:
...while the destruction of this {Atlantean} continent and the peoples are far beyond any of that as has been kept as an absolute record, that record in the rocks still remains... if the geological survey would be made ....in Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity, these may be even yet determined.
Our discovery of the ancient land surface at Bimini was made by drilling three 50-ft long cores in the Bimini Inlet. The rocks encountered were far too old to fit with a curve for Holocene sea-level rise in the broader Caribbean (includes the Bahamas). Instead, C-14 and fossil-coral age dating and stratigraphic information indicate that a significant disconformity is present beneath the Bimini Islands. A reasonable implication of the missing rocks is that during a period of time covering perhaps 800,000 years -- or a minimum of 120,000 years at the least -- an ancient land surface in the Bimini area could have been above sea-level during the Pleistocene continental glaciations. This old land surface would have been available for human habitation for upwards of the last 120,000 years, at a minimum.
Our research was published in December of 2008 in the journal Carbonates and Evaporites. A slightly modified version of that journal article forms the first part of this THC article. In addition to this main story, we have included a "back story," which gives the history of the drilling effort up to the recovery of the core samples.
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