Re: Hominid Fossils and Eustasy

Paul Crowley:
> Surely the ancestral climate was primarily
> tropical? Africa runs roughly from 30
> degrees North to 30 South. IMHO the
> most likely locations are within about 15
> degrees of the Equator.
>
> In any case, I'm looking at a fairly narrow
> coastal strip, where much of the weather
> would come from fairly local interaction
> with the ocean. I'm not sure whether
> a warm ocean would produce more local
> rain and condensation than a cold one,
> but in any case, it would produce some. Paul.

Regarding precipitation, 70% of precipitation in Amazon is created
by forest itself. The rest comes from ocean. -- Mario


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