Re: Brrr, bone chilling paleopolar summers(Polar dinosaur growth and other new papers)

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

I'll check into that.  It doesn't sound right, however.   There was a point 
when all the continents were in one place, and it wasn't both the north and 
the south pole.

Dora
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dann Pigdon" <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Brrr, bone chilling paleopolar summers(Polar dinosaur growth 
and other new papers)


> On Mon, Aug 8th, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Has everyone forgotten that the continents were not located where they 
> > are
> > now?  The arctic could not have supported dinosaurs when it wasn't frozen
> > over, since there is no dry land there.  Antarctica was not always as the
> > south pole and was once warm.
>
> During the Cretaceous, the North American plate was further north (closer 
> to the Arctic circle),
> and Australia was further south (closer to the Antarctic circle).
>
> As far as I know, Antarctica has always been close to the south pole. It 
> has wandered about a bit,
> but it has been in the general vicinity for a long time.
>
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> Dann Pigdon
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