Re: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <20050629002258.38010.qmail@web50807.mail.yahoo.com>, Don 
ohmes wrote:
> > > 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...
>
       The Atlantic between Britain and Greenland opened around about 
53MA ago. Lots of volcanics, sediment shed into basins tl make 
present-day billion-barrel oil fields, little things like that. 
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:22 +0100



                
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