RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 30, 2023 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2023 at 12:24 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World is based on the notion that tepuis’ cliffs had separated the flat tops from the ecosystems all around them since Mesozoic era, so isolated remnant populations of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic animals continue to thrive on top of the tepuis.
In fact, The tops of the tepuis really are the erosional remnants of the originally continuous land surface during the Mesozoic when South America was part of the supercontinent Pangea.
Doyle guessed right, but he could not have known it for sure given the state of geological science at the time.
In fact, The tops of the tepuis really are the erosional remnants of the originally continuous land surface during the Mesozoic when South America was part of the supercontinent Pangea.
Doyle guessed right, but he could not have known it for sure given the state of geological science at the time.
