If only a few faint geological events have been able to cause both immediate and radical change in ocean currents, climate and biological dibersidad around the globe, is probably the formation of the Isthmus of Panama The most surprising to intuition for its peculiar development.
The Miocene geological period had been a dry and cold, the appearance of the Antarctic ice sheet at the end of the Eocene and climate change consequential decimated marine and terrestrial biodiversity was his lasting mark on the global climate during the Oligocene and Miocene own. The plains and deserts were the dominant terrestrial ecosystems, where large mammals and birds had had a considerable amount of time to adapt and diversify, the two American continents, the North and South, remained separated by the Strait of Panama of which circulate freely through the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Central Mighty exercised its thermoregulatory role in maintaining stable moving global ocean currents.
Only five million years ago, started the period Pliocene, a brutal tectonic plate Cocos sank beneath the Caribbean plate nearby, generating numerous earthquakes and tsunamis of great magnitude. The collapse of the subduction zone inevitably led to a frantic volcanic activity in the strait, where abundant eruptive cones archipelago formed a tight line between the two continents, partially blocking the ocean currents that eventually ended up closing the inter-spaces due to gradual accumulation of sediments. He was born on the Isthmus of Panama, and the world was never the same. With the narrow Panamanian
closed, recirculating currents of the Pacific Ocean towards This and end up bypassing the South American continent, interacting with the cold Antarctic waters. Across the Isthmus, the current Caribbean was diverted to find their usual pace truncated, leading the warm surface waters to the coast of Europe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The effect on the northern polar waters was not delayed, the more evaporation from the tropical waters on their way to North European notables induced precipitation increased disproportionately in the course of a few thousand years, resulting in a persistent cold polar atmosphere snowfall that lasted for much of the year, thus leading to an incipient polar cap, which was soon enlarged to cool the region, a result of increased refraction of sunlight on the white ice. The low salinity agglomerated ice on the North Sea further accelerated the process, brewing a real ice age. However, the polar cap would be over time a new mechanism for stabilizing the climate and ocean currents by causing the current largest salt water balloon, the great power that favors Thermohaline circulation of marine waters throughout the oceans.
The Miocene geological period had been a dry and cold, the appearance of the Antarctic ice sheet at the end of the Eocene and climate change consequential decimated marine and terrestrial biodiversity was his lasting mark on the global climate during the Oligocene and Miocene own. The plains and deserts were the dominant terrestrial ecosystems, where large mammals and birds had had a considerable amount of time to adapt and diversify, the two American continents, the North and South, remained separated by the Strait of Panama of which circulate freely through the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Central Mighty exercised its thermoregulatory role in maintaining stable moving global ocean currents.
Only five million years ago, started the period Pliocene, a brutal tectonic plate Cocos sank beneath the Caribbean plate nearby, generating numerous earthquakes and tsunamis of great magnitude. The collapse of the subduction zone inevitably led to a frantic volcanic activity in the strait, where abundant eruptive cones archipelago formed a tight line between the two continents, partially blocking the ocean currents that eventually ended up closing the inter-spaces due to gradual accumulation of sediments. He was born on the Isthmus of Panama, and the world was never the same. With the narrow Panamanian
closed, recirculating currents of the Pacific Ocean towards This and end up bypassing the South American continent, interacting with the cold Antarctic waters. Across the Isthmus, the current Caribbean was diverted to find their usual pace truncated, leading the warm surface waters to the coast of Europe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The effect on the northern polar waters was not delayed, the more evaporation from the tropical waters on their way to North European notables induced precipitation increased disproportionately in the course of a few thousand years, resulting in a persistent cold polar atmosphere snowfall that lasted for much of the year, thus leading to an incipient polar cap, which was soon enlarged to cool the region, a result of increased refraction of sunlight on the white ice. The low salinity agglomerated ice on the North Sea further accelerated the process, brewing a real ice age. However, the polar cap would be over time a new mechanism for stabilizing the climate and ocean currents by causing the current largest salt water balloon, the great power that favors Thermohaline circulation of marine waters throughout the oceans.
Perhaps
on to say that climate change resulting from an event so little noticed in the global assembly was the end for many species that failed to adapt and a new opportunity for the most favored, but at the continental level the consequences of the bridge emerged between the two bodies earth tube equally irreversible sequelae. Many large predators northerners, including highlighting the Felines, invaded the territories of South America, taking the top slot at the top of the food chain to the titanic native flightless bird. Also numerous plant species and phytophagous moved southward expanding populations, although only a few species South American managed to adapt and thrive in the competitive North continent, among those who were successful in expanding boreal predatory birds were cited by his opportunism.
Little things, big consequences.
Little things, big consequences.