Re: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> It seems likely to me that the general flow of WIS was
> strongly south to north circa 94 my BP. Sinking
> surface HOH in the Artic would pull (very?) warm WIS
> HOH into that basin.

I don't think any water could have sunk in the Arctic Ocean -- it was 
connected to the other oceans just by epicontinental seas (WIS, Turgay 
Strait).

> Cooled bottom HOH in the Arctic
> Basin would then flow out of the deepest exit,
> arguably the mouth of the N Atlantic trough,

Didn't exist yet.