Thread: Climate

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

What I understood from the vid is that the rocks in the Antartic are the same as those at the great lakes and these rocks are different to any others anywhere else on earth, potentially demonstrating that at the time of a densovian (or other) civilisation the polar land mass was a long way north.
The 'fanciful conclusions' may be truths, as the ice melts we will find out. Certainly interesting to know what those structures under the ice are. Climate change, happening since 2 billion BC

Greetings,
The rocks may be the same but it would have been a very long time since they were in the same place. 200 million years ago all of the southern continents including India were clumped together with Antarctica in the middle. Yes it was a long way north of where it is now with one edge sitting at 40 degrees south so climate would have been quite different as it would have been a warm period. Antarctica drifted south and was close to its current position around 40 million years ago. The Denisovan people appeared in what is now Russia very roughly 250 thousand years ago and the Homo Genus appeared in Africa around 2 million years ago so, regrettably, the chance of man inhabiting Antarctica is slight at best. See if you can find a book in the Library on Planet Earth that includes its origins and development. It is a ripping yarn. The one I have in front of me is "New Zealand Historical Atlas" which covers history better than Geology but still gives an oversight.
Regards Grandpamac.