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RE: The Western Interior Seaway (and computers)

Good grief; it was a veritable ocean! I never thought it was the same thing as the inland sea that covered Texas.

Dora


At 05:49 PM 6/28/05 -0400, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote: 
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> 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?
>

It is the very archetype of an inland sea!!

Its size varied throughout its existence. Here is a map at one of its wider moments:
http://www.nature.ca/discover/treasures/trsite_e/trfossil/tr3/tr3_where.html

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