Plato's Geology is Consistent with the Story of Atlantis

According to Plato, Athens was once very different than today, and even than his own time. He describes in Critias how Attica had a very different morphology 9.000 years before his time (thus around 9.500 BC). Here is the ancient text:

"But because there were many cataclysms during the nine thousand years – that is how many have passed until today – the soil during those years and due to those events was moving away from higher grounds and did not accumulate on the ground, as it happens in other places, but it always slipped away in large quantities and disappeared into the depths of the sea. This way, as it happens on small islands, what is left, compared to what there was in the past, resembles a skeleton of a sick body, as the soil, being fertile and soft, was carried away and only the shallow crust of the earth was left behind. But during those ancient times our land, as it was still intact, instead of mountains and the nowadays dry lands had tall muddy hills, and those plains which are now called felees were full of fertile land, and the mountains had many forests, from which there are still traces today. So, there are some mountains that only produce food for bees, while they used to have huge trees. [...] First of all, the acropolis back then was not like today. One night, unusually heavy rain happened to fall that carried away all the soil around it, leaving it naked, while earthquakes and three devastating floods followed before the one of Deucalion. But before all that, the acropolis stretched from Eridanos river to Illisos river, including Pnyx, and its border was Lycabettus across the Pnyx. This entire area had rich soil and, besides few parts, was flat".

There was an international conference in 2015 called "The prehistory of Athens and Attica" that took place in Athens. Over 120 Greek and foreign scientists took place in the conference to discuss the geophysical research that reveals important changes on the Attica landscape during the past 10.000 years. In other words, both Plato and modern science tell us the exact same thing. Yet another "lucky" guess by Plato...

Furthermore, if we look deeper into Plato's story we cannot help but wonder how come all that soil stayed in place for millions of years when, suddenly, it started to slip away to the sea around 9.500 BC. Surely there was rain before that. From our experience we know that the roots of the trees are the ones that prevent water from carrying away the soil. Whenever forests are destroyed by fires, the following winter rainfall has such an effect. So it makes sense to assume that back then too a lot of trees were removed, which was the reason why the Athenian soil eventually ended up in the sea. It is clear that human activity was responsible for the reduced number of trees. But what kind of activity?

We should rule out farming, as science tells us that the first farmers came to Europe from Asia around 7.000 BC. But even if we didn't know that, it is clear for anyone familiar with Greece that neither Greece nor Athens is a farmer's dream location. Athens is surrounded by tall mountains leaving very little space for farming. So, did the ancient Athenians perhaps cut down the trees to use the tinder for warming themselves? First of all there were not supported to by large population before farming, so why the sudden need for so much wood? Secondly, the people did not do this during the ice age and they started when the weather started getting warmer? Not convincing at all. The only answer left is that they needed wood for ships. The wood from those trees could have been used to build the fleet that confronted the Atlanteans, who knows.

Anyway, to sum up, Plato's geology is consistent with his story of Atlantis.