Re: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

> > 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. 

No exit to the Artic basin? How do you know that? The
channel between Norway and Greenland was open (passive
margin) according to the map I'm looking at...
<http://www.scotese.com/cretaceo.htm>