Re: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

[villandra@austin.rr.com]

How large was teh Seaway?   Was it more like the Mississippi River, or 
was it closer to being an inland sea?

I've encountered many mentions of it, but one would have to know its 
size adn character to judge how it might have affected ocean currents 
and the weather. 

Yours,
Dora Smith


From: Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:21 am
Subject: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

> There is nothing presently in existence that is an analog to the WIS.
> 
> The Seaway was, at its maximum, a multi-thousand kilometer, N-S-
> trending,pole-to-semitropical shallow waterway, bounded by two 
> large landmasses
> that supplied a prodigious amount of sediment into the WIS basin.
> 
>