Friday, May 30, 2008

History of the oceans


Aydan Foster
Marine Bioligy




Did you know the earth didn’t always have water? It spent about 1000 years with out water. The earth got its water after the hadean era when a bunch of gases formed into rain clouds.

The hadean era was the time before life on earth. It was just fire and lava every where. It was to hot on the earth to have any life whatsoever. It was hot because the earth was a meteor that got trapped in the sun’s gravitational pull. Even though the earth stopped moving it didn’t cool down. It ended about 1000 years latter and rained for 400 years.
I have a theory that Venus is going to move away from the sun and restart the earth’s evolution on Venus.






After the hadean era came the continent known as Pangaea.

Pangaea happened after it rained for 4 centuries. Pangaea was when all the continents were connected in one big continent. It was in the shape of a C. the pool of water inside the C was known as the Tethys sea. The breakup of Pangaea started in the early Jurassic era when a riff current that connected the Tethys Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. At the end of the breakup, the Atlantic Ocean was created. The breakup started in the separation of North America and Africa and ended with Africa and Eurasia almost connecting together.

The oceans are always changing. They’ve been changing since the beginning of them and they’re still changing. For example California is sinking. And so is London. But not only are the oceans are changing but so are the continents because of the plate tectonics. With out the ocean the plate tectonics would just make earthquakes and volcanoes.



I got my information from wikipedia.org, the book of the seven seas and a book called the Mediterranean

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