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thrownthatway | on: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
Was the land lower, the seas higher, or some combination, way back when?
mkl | parent | next
Land lower - Alps and Carpathians hadn't formed yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratethys and its predecessor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethys_Ocean
Crunchified | parent | next
I would wager that the land was lower than the sea back then.
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andix | parent
I'm not sure, I would guess both.