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Heraclides Ponticus and Antimachus in contrast identified the Riphean Mountains with the Alps, and the Hyperboreans as a Celtic tribe (perhaps the Helvetii) who lived just beyond them. [19] Aristotle placed the Riphean mountains on the borders of Scythia, and Hyperborea further north. [20] Hecataeus of Abdera and others believed Hyperborea was ...
The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years. The ancient sea, which existed from the early Late Cretaceous (100 Ma) to the earliest Paleocene ...
Laramidia stretched from modern-day Alaska to Mexico. [2] The area is rich in dinosaur fossils. Tyrannosaurs, dromaeosaurids, troodontids, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians (including Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops [3]), pachycephalosaurs, and titanosaur sauropods are some of the dinosaur groups that lived on this landmass.
One rift resulted in the North Atlantic Ocean. [20] Map of Earth around 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. The South Atlantic did not open until the Cretaceous when Laurasia started to rotate clockwise and moved northward with North America to the north, and Eurasia to the south.
Pytheas was a central source of information on the North Sea and the subarctic regions of western Europe to later periods, and possibly the only source. The only ancient authors we know by name who certainly saw Pytheas' original text were Dicaearchus , Timaeus , Eratosthenes , Crates of Mallus , Hipparchus , Polybius , Artemidorus and ...
Zealandia (pronounced / z iː ˈ l æ n d i ə /), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui [2] or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea), [3] [4] is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago. [5]
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).
According to Herodotus they dwelt geographically along the sea south of Libya on the Atlantic. [17] This Libya was far south of the Pillars of Hercules and Atlas Mountains along the Atlantic coast, while the northern Libyan sea coast was the Mediterranean Sea that stretched from Egypt to Morocco in an east to west direction. [18]