What is the western interior Seaway?

The Western Sea Road, also called Cretaceous Seaway, was a massive waterway that covered a large part of the North America interior during the early and half circular period, about 100 to 70 million years ago. The Western interior Seaway was one of the largest continental sea of ​​all time, stretching from Utah in the west to the western Appalachians in the east, a total of about 1000 km (621 miles) wide. Its deepest point was only about 800 or 900 meters (about half a mile) underwater, relatively shallow for the sea. The Western interior of Seaway also covered most of the shallow southeastern United States, including every state adjacent to modern Mexican bay.

The Western interior Seaway was created during one of the biggest offenses of all time. In Paleogeography there is an offense where the sea level in the world rises. This may be caused by Icecaps, but in this case Icecaps have already been melted and the offense was Caused under the spread of the seabed, the phenomenon of the underground building of the mountains. WallThe seabed spread took place in the Atlantic Ocean and created so much new rock that it has reduced the overall capacity of this pelvis and increased the sea levels around the world for millions of years.

The Western Maritime Road is known for its skeletons of sea monsters: Mosasaur, Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs, ancient sea reptiles that lived during the age of the dinosaurs, but were subsequently during the end staff extinction. Some of the fossils of Mosasaur discovered in places like modern Kansas were up to 18 m (60 ft) lengths, which represents some of the largest sea predators of all time. Mosasaur looked like giant sea crocodiles with fins.

Ichthyosaur fossils are also found in the dried Western Interior Seaway pan. Ichthyosaurs are naval reptiles superficially similar to fish or dolphins. The world's largest fossil in the world has so far dug the Canadian paleontologist Dr. Elizabeth nicholls of Pink MoUbain in British Columbia. It measured 23 m (75 ft), which actually shifted the limits of the size of the sea animal. These animals had tears in the shape of a tears and huge eyes for hunting in matte waters.

The Western interior Seaway was also inhabited by iconic balls, naval plas with long throats. Loch Ness monster is sometimes considered to be surviving Plesiosaur, although it is very unlikely. The real fossils of Plesiosaur are dug all the time in the middle of the United States, with some species up to 20 m (65 ft). One species, thalassomedone had a neck longer than his body, in one of the most extreme examples of the neck extension between the still found balls. This would make it possible to put his head far into tasty schools for refreshments without scaring the massive mass of his body.

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