Getting Around in the Late Paleozoic

[N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx (N. MacLeod)]

Now that everyone has more-or-less recovered from NAPC I guess it's time to
get back to the business of wringing information out of the universal
paleo. mind. Lately I've been looking into the question of Late Paleozoic
marine surface-water circulation patterns (don't ask why) and I need to
know whether the existence of circum-global equatorial circulation (such as
existed in the Early Carboniferous and Cretaceous would have increased or
decreased the intensity of gyral circulation relative to time periods when
there was no circum-global equatorial circulation (such as the Permian or
now)? Any paleo-oceanographers out there who feel like sticking their necks
out on this one?

Thanks in advance.


Norm MacLeod



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Norman MacLeod
Micropalaeontological Research
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