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freshwater lake but usually lower salinity than seawater. As with other seas, inland seas experience tides governed by the orbits of the Moon and Sun. What constitutes...

Pliocene (about 5 million years ago), when it largely dried out. The modern inland seas of Europe and Western Asia, namely the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, are...

ancient Tethys Ocean, and much of the area was flooded by shallow, warm inland seas. Ocepeia fossils are associated with diverse sharks, birds, and marine...

depths, and distant horizons, the five Great Lakes have long been called inland seas. Depending on how it is measured, by surface area, either Lake Superior...

Mountain building and erosion around the plains as well as flooding from inland seas provided sediments that make up the rock strata of the interior plains...

resulting in high eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now-extinct marine reptiles...

says seven guns) were shipped to Manila in late 1940, as part of the Inland Seas Defense Project. Initially, difficulties were encountered because the...

Richard F. (1987) "100 years of provisioning Great Lakes ships" Inland seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society 43(1): pp. 10–22, pages...

Smaller quantities, though at higher concentrations, occur in certain inland seas and in subterranean brine wells, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah...

(2015) created by Ron Barnett, Peter Welkin and Randi Wolfe. Song of the Inland Seas (1970) The Mountains Call My Name (1990) Stories and songs based on the...

temperate climate that extended to the poles, elevated sea levels, and inland seas. With a dentition adapted to shearing vegetation, members of the family...

(about 36% w/v salts). These are the primary inhabitants of salt lakes, inland seas, and evaporating ponds of seawater, such as the deep salterns, where...

February 15, 2010. "Inland Seas". 31–32. Great Lakes Historical Society. 1975: 248. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) ABS trim and...

David (2010). "The Lost Wreck of the Cortland Found" (PDF). Inland Seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society. 66: 20–28. ISSN 0020-1537...

There are 1770 km of waterways in Japan; seagoing craft ply all coastal inland seas. There are some 994 ports in Japan as of April 2014. There are overlapping...

years ago. Tectonics researcher Christoper Scolese suggests that vast inland seas inundated much of southern and western Nebraska ten million years before...

Press, Inc.; Cleveland, Ohio; 1940, pp. 216-229 Wolff, Julius F. Jr., Inland Seas, Volume 18; Havighurst, Walter, ed.; The Great Lakes Reader; The Macmillan...

comprises several smaller lakes. As these lakes lie to the north of other inland seas of Central Asia, they are of key importance for waterfowl migration....

powerful swimmers, and were well-adapted to living in the warm, shallow inland seas prevalent during the Late Cretaceous period. Mosasaurs were so well adapted...

Peninsula near Port Rowan, Canada. Hailed as the first flight across inland seas in America and the first international flight from North America, this...