Earth's Climate and Geological History
Sun, 2007-09-30 16:42
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Earth's Climate and Geological History
Sun, 2007-09-30 16:42
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[url=http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm]http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm[/url]
Fascinating website. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img] It even shows possible future continental-drift projections. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
Sun, 2007-09-30 17:01
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Looks like a big collision between India and Asia at some point.
Sun, 2007-09-30 18:10
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Looks like a big collision between India and Asia at some point.
They're still colliding. That's what caused the Himalayas.
Sun, 2007-09-30 18:58
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Sven
In the [url=http://www.scotese.com/futanima.htm]"Future Animation"[/url], it looks like, for a time (for many million years?) most of North America in the future will be nearly completely covered by ocean water.
That reminds me...
My sister lives on a farm in northwestern Iowa. In a rock outcropping on their land, her kids find fossilized sharks teeth all of the time. It's weird to think that sharks swam above modern-day Iowa millions of years ago.
When I see shit like that (and look at that animation from the website you linked to), I kinda wonder if a 5-foot rise in the sea level over the next hundred years or so (due to global warming) would result in any long term effect (at least any long term effect with any meaning), given the dramatic changes the earth has gone through, and will go through, any way, with or without humans.
Those immense (incomprehensible, really) changes that the earth will experience seem to make human-caused changes (and humans, for that matter) insignificant.
[Cogitating...]
Mon, 2007-10-01 18:48
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When I see shit like that (and look at that animation from the website you linked to), I kinda wonder if a 5-foot rise in the sea level over the next hundred years or so (due to global warming) would result in any long term effect (at least any long term effect with any meaning), given the dramatic changes the earth has gone through, and will go through, any way, with or without humans.
Considering ice dynamics, a five foot rise in mean sea level over the next 100 years is a good possibility, however, we are probably committed or soon will be to 5 or ten times that due to the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets over the next several hundred years. To say nothing of storm surges.