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From: "Eric Olson" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Sea Depths - worldwide.
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:47:22 -0800
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I've read that the rising sea level prevented the repopulation of Ireland by
snakes and voles. This seems to argue that any land bridge was short lived.

Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Ritter" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Sea Depths - worldwide.


> I've finally gotten around to reading After the Ice by Steven Mithen. One
> of the things that is mentioned there is that the weight of the glaciers
> actually depressed the land that was covered with ice, causing the land to
> bulge up in the latitudes south of the glaciers. Thus the sea depths in
> 1990 may not tell the complete story of what lands might have been exposed
> during the ice ages.
>
> At 06:18 AM 3/8/2005, you wrote:
> >1990 should probably work; those depths don't change too rapidly.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "AAF" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:56 AM
> >Subject: [DNA] Sea Depths - worldwide.
> >
> >
> > > The Times Atlas of the World, published by the London Times Newspaper
> >Group,
> > > gives sea depths on all its maps. My copy was published in 1990, but i
> >think
> > > there is a new, updated edition every two years or so.
> > > Alan Foster.
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