Re: 5.5 mya Mediterranean Flood coup de grace? 2/2 (was An

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 04:53:30 -0500

At 10:13 PM 8/24/98 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
>Stanley shows just where these "differential movements between Iberia and
>Africa" ocurred on pages 207 and 210 of his "Earth and Life Through
>Time". The gap as it existed at the Cretaceous (ie. 65 mya) is where the
>Pyrenees are now. But Stanley's maps of "20 million years ago" map at
>page 606 shows it closed. And his maps of 6.0 mya and 5.5 mya show the
>gap still closed.

No that is not where the 5.5 myr gate was. It was not at the Pyranees. The
two locations that most geologists believe was the opening to the Atlantic
at the end of the Miocene are two basins no more than about 100 miles or
less north and south of gibraltar.

I have to go catch a plane so maybe more later.

glenn

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