Re: First dinosaur traces found in South Pacific
- From: "neutrino" <stuartr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Mar 2006 09:07:35 -0800
not sure... but if you take a look at a satelite view of th eplanet
with the sea removed - eg: the Google Earth - to the east of th eSouth
island there is a large "land mass" - presently of course under-water,
that sretches out a huge dostance from NZ, and includes th eChatham
islands, but you can imagine if this land mass eons ago was n o t
underwater? but was part of NZ and the original .. what was it?
Godwana land? as it shifted from Antarctica, it would amount to a huge
land are where many creatures could have existed for many thousands of
years, but yeah.. only if the sea level was substantially lower than
it is now- Or th eland mass was somehow at a higher level than it is
now, could be that over time and tectonic plate movement that that now
submerged eastern land mass gradually sank beneath the sea, leaving the
only refuge for any creatures as the now Chatham islands, as the
dinosaurs moved to avoid the encroaching sea - many I imagine would not
have survived....
tis just a thought and a theory.. it'll be interesting to hear what
others think, and what the tectonic plate experts hypothesize as the
likely scenario.
.
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