RE: paleonet Cretaceous seas...

["David Kopaska-Merkel" <davidkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am sure there is an estimate somewhere, but if you could get a percent of
Earth's current land area above the elevation estimated for the seas if the
existing ice caps melted entirely away, that would be another way to
approach the problem. 

David 


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-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf
Of Mike Everhart
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:49 AM
To: Vert Paleo list; Paleonet
Subject: paleonet Cretaceous seas...

All,
Can someone point me to research that estimates the amount of the earth's
surface covered by oceans during the Late Cretaceous?  Currently about 71%
of the earth's surface is covered, but with no ice caps, high sea levels and
epicontinental seas encroaching on most continents, it had to have been
somewhere around 80-85%.

Regards,

Mike Everhart
Adjunct Curator of Paleontology
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
www.oceansofkansas.com