# No: the structure has stood far inland and well above the sea throughout human times

> Still possible: The sea has not reached the Richat while people lived in the Sahara: global sea level was lower than today, not higher, at the end of the…

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# No: the structure has stood far inland and well above the sea throughout human times

The sea has not reached the Richat while people lived in the Sahara: global sea level was lower than today, not higher, at the end of the last Ice Age, and the structure's young sediments were laid down by streams and wind.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- No marine deposits of Pleistocene or Holocene age at the structure.
- Terrestrial (river, lake and wind-blown) sediments throughout the dated sequence.

## What would rule it out

- Dated marine shells or shoreline deposits of the last 15,000 years at the Richat.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[The dated deposits formed in the African Humid Period from streams and wind, dated on shells and calcite](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKV7EAR5F8/the-dated-deposits-formed-in-the-african-humid-period-from)

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[The rim stands about 485 m above sea level, some 500 km from the coast](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKV70ED5NR/the-rim-stands-about-485-m-above-sea-level-some-500-km-from)

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## The questions it answers

[Has the sea reached the Richat Structure at any time since people lived in the Sahara?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/questions/QST0DCKRHE85Z9Z/has-the-sea-reached-the-richat-structure-at-any-time-since)

Part of [Is the Richat Structure the place Plato described as Atlantis?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/questions/QST0DCKRC3VMNXB/is-the-richat-structure-the-place-plato-described-as)

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