Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - part 2
Glossary
Casiquiare Channel – natural linkage of the Orinoco and Rio Negro rivers in Venezuela
catastrophism – theory that Earth’s natural history has been shaped by sudden short-lived violent events
droving road- road for moving livestock on foot
foreland basin - basin formed adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt by flexure of the lithosphere in response to the weight of the mountains and sediment they generate
Hominins – branch containing all modern and extinct human species (in contrast to hominids, which also include the Great Apes)
mill pond – pond produced by damming a stream to provide power for a mill
Olduvai gorge - site in Tanzania that has yielded evidence of the earliest human species
Sano Zama – Amazon River when it flowed backwards (backward spelling of Amazonas)
Western Interior Seaway – Cretaceous Sea splitting North America into Laramidia in the west and Appalachia in the east