Ural Trough

ancient seaway

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Cenozoic Era

  • Messinian Stage
    In Tertiary Period: Paleogeography

    …the Eurasian continent itself, the Ural Trough (or Turgai Strait), a marine seaway that linked the Tethys with the Arctic region but also constituted a barrier to the east-west migration of terrestrial faunas, was terminated by regional uplift some 29 million years ago during the Oligocene. The resulting immigration of…

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