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On a Geologic Time Scale , inland seas have been greater in extent and more common.


  • At the same time, much of the low plains of modern-day northern France and northern Germany were inundated by an inland sea, where the chalk was deposited that gave the Cretaceous Period its name.


  • The Amazon, originally emptying into the Pacific, as South America rifted from Africa, found its exit blocked by the rise of the Andes about 15 mya. A great inland sea developed, at times draining north through what is now Venezuela before finding its present eastward outlet into the South Atlantic. Gradually this inland sea became a vast freshwater lake and wetlands where sediment flattened its profiles and the marine inhabitants adapted to life in freshwater. Over 20 species of Stingray , most closely related to those found in the Pacific Ocean, can be found today in the freshwaters of the Amazon, which is also home to a freshwater Dolphin . In 2005 fossilized remains of a giant Crocodilian , estimated to have been 46 ft (14m) in length, were discovered in the northern rainforest of Amazonian Peru {Link without Title} .


  • In Australia the promise of an expected inland sea was one of the prime motives of inland exploration of Australia during the 1830s and 1820s . The main champions of the theory were Charles Sturt and John Oxley , but it had a number of other supporters. Notable sceptics included Edward John Eyre .