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related:

Remains of an ancient ocean
by Paul Cooper
26 August 1999

Until 65 million years ago, a great ocean, the Tethys, separated India from Asia. There were no Himalayas and no Tibetan Plateau... A team led by Rob Van der Voo of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan has found signs of this ancient ocean deep beneath the Indian subcontinent... By reconstructing the paths taken by earthquake waves through the Earth, they have created a three-dimensional computer model of the interior of the Earth beneath India and the surrounding area.

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Note: this topic is from February 2007. This is a re-ping, because I got thinking about something else, found this, and realized it's an apropos sidebar to the Eocene climate topic just posted today by decimon. And sometime this week, related to both these, we either had a new article or a revived old topic about, uh, dang, I can't remember now what it was about.

The *fault* is all mine.

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