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Panama Canal fossils reveal ancient collision of worlds
BBC ^ | Howard Falcon-Lang

Posted on 09/30/2010 6:48:09 PM PDT by decimon

It was the biggest event in our planet's history since the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Three million years ago, the Americas collided.

The creation of the Panama Isthmus - the narrow land bridge that joins the two continents - wreaked havoc on land, sea and air. It triggered extinctions, diverted ocean currents and transformed climate.

Now a multi-billion dollar project to widen the Panama Canal is set to reveal new secrets about the event that changed the world.

Panama is a tiny country, but in a perfect location.

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The formation of the Panama Isthmus, however, did not only affect the Americas. It also transformed global climate, and might even be responsible for the UK's dismal and damp summers.

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"Its controversial," said Dr Sepulchre, "but some scientists think that the formation of the Gulf Stream transported extra moisture into the Arctic atmosphere. This fell as snow, triggering the build up of the Greenland Ice Sheet."

In turn, this may have kick-started the Ice Age.

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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; panama
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1 posted on 09/30/2010 6:48:11 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Together again ping.


2 posted on 09/30/2010 6:48:55 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Maybe they will find John McCain III down there.


3 posted on 09/30/2010 6:53:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: decimon

And I thought the Micoene/Pliocene was a boring time except for the Cacharadon Megalodons.


4 posted on 09/30/2010 6:57:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: theKid51

You were there right?


5 posted on 09/30/2010 7:00:02 PM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
...Cacharadon Megalodons.

Rolled or in a pipe?

6 posted on 09/30/2010 7:00:10 PM PDT by decimon
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7 posted on 09/30/2010 7:04:08 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: decimon

If only Gore and the dems could have been around back then... they could have prevented it.


8 posted on 09/30/2010 7:07:37 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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9 posted on 09/30/2010 7:15:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Gator113

If only they’d been carbon neutral none of this would have happened.


10 posted on 09/30/2010 7:16:06 PM PDT by utherdoul
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they can’t predict the weather tomorrow afternoon and they are trying to describe what happened a million years age.....right


11 posted on 09/30/2010 7:30:11 PM PDT by terycarl (interested and informed)
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To: decimon

Panama is not so much a country in a perfect place as it was a perfect place to make a country.

It was Colombia until a takeover of the property was orchestrated by Teddy R.


12 posted on 09/30/2010 10:24:56 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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Yes I was there when the collision happened..... I hold my rather well!


13 posted on 10/01/2010 2:49:35 PM PDT by theKid51
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oooops. that should have read - hold my age rather well.


14 posted on 10/01/2010 2:51:21 PM PDT by theKid51
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
"Its controversial," said Dr Sepulchre, "but some scientists think that the formation of the Gulf Stream transported extra moisture into the Arctic atmosphere. This fell as snow, triggering the build up of the Greenland Ice Sheet."
It's not controversial, but it is completely moribund. :') Thanks decimon! I had hoped it was about the Chicxulub impact, but it's still a two-list ping topic!
 
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15 posted on 10/01/2010 2:58:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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16 posted on 10/01/2010 3:03:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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Gondwana made me do it.
17 posted on 10/01/2010 3:52:04 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sooo... if they widen the Canal enough does this mean enough of the Gulf Stream would bleed off into the Pacific causing Britain to get so cold the Islamomaniacs will all go back to their sandbox?


18 posted on 10/01/2010 4:56:48 PM PDT by bigheadfred (We built a tower of stone. With our flesh and bone. Just to see him fly .)
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To: decimon
"Its controversial," said Dr Sepulchre, "but some scientists think that the formation of the Gulf Stream transported extra moisture into the Arctic atmosphere. This fell as snow, triggering the build up of the Greenland Ice Sheet."

In turn, this may have kick-started the Ice Age.


Which one?
19 posted on 10/01/2010 4:58:46 PM PDT by aruanan
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Yes I was there when the collision happened

...and Helen Thomas did the live interviews with all the surviving witnesses. Unless she has a clip showing you, we only have your unsubstatiated anectdotal claim. Can you provide a link? *<];-)

20 posted on 10/01/2010 5:01:46 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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