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Epeiric sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An epeiric sea (also known as an epicontinental sea ) is a shallow sea that extends over part of a continent. Epeiric seas are usually associated with the marine transgressions of the geologic pas...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on epicontinental sea (geology), As a result of higher sea levels during the Late Cretaceous, marine waters inundated the continents, creating relatively shallow epicontinental seas in North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and Australia. ... ADD TO YOUR SITE...
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Definition of epicontinental from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
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Jul 26, 2008 ... [edit] Adjective. epicontinental (comparative more epicontinental, superlative most epicontinental). Positive epicontinental ...
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epicontinental sea - Ecology of epicontinental sea from A Dictionary of Ecology at Encyclopedia.com ... ...Greenland and the Canadian Arctic) formed a wide epicontinental sea, stretching from Novaya Zemlya in the east to the...North Greenland regions were covered by the shallow epicontinental sea. Fine-grained sediments...
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epicontinental sea - Scientific definition of epicontinental sea from A Dictionary of Earth Sciences at Encyclopedia.com.
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Epicontinental - Definition of Epicontinental at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Epicontinental. Look it up now! ... Use epicontinental in a Sentence...
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New Oceans Begin to Open ... During the Cretaceous the South Atlantic Ocean opened. India separated from Madagascar and raced northward on a collision course with Eurasia. Notice that North America was connected to Europe, and that Australia was still joined to Antarctica. ... return to Earth History...
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On this page ... Sci-Tech Dictionary: epicontinental sea ... 5min Related Video: epicontinental sea...
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Sci-Tech Dictionary: epicontinental ... Home > Library > Science > Sci-Tech Dictionary ... (geology) Located upon a continental plateau or platform.
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