Re: inland sea

Alex Duncan (aduncan@mail.utexas.edu)
7 Jul 1995 17:33:11 GMT

In article <3te7ae$q9r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Pat Dooley,
patdooley@aol.com writes:
>The Afar desert, site of the oldest hominid fossils, was once an inland
>sea.
>It formed about 7 million years ago (about the time of the
>human/chimpanzee
>split) and slowly evaporated over the next few million years.

What's your citation for the inland sea?

Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu