An inland sea (also known as an epeiric sea or an epicontinental sea) is a continental body of water which is very large in area and is either completely...

and the epicontinental seas of Laurussia. These differences are due to variations in seawater salinity and evaporation between epicontinental seas relative...

Greenland several hundred kilometers wide. During the Callovian, the Turgai Epicontinental Sea formed, creating a marine barrier between Europe and Asia. Madagascar...

S. (March 2019). "The Silurian climatic transition recorded in the epicontinental Baltica Sea". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 517:...

Sea or West Siberian Sea, was a large shallow body of salt water (an epicontinental or epeiric sea) during the Mesozoic through Cenozoic Eras. It extended...

biological diversity with each change. Species limited to a single epicontinental sea on a given landmass were severely affected. Tropical lifeforms were...

caused a small tsunami that flooded parts of the British coast. Shallow epicontinental seas like the current North Sea have since long existed on the European...

tundra vegetation. Interglacials are identified on land or in shallow epicontinental seas by their paleontology. Floral and faunal remains of species pointing...

Proterozoic features many strata that were laid down in extensive shallow epicontinental seas; furthermore, many of these rocks are less metamorphosed than Archean-age...

Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway as a model for oxygenation change in epicontinental restricted basins" (PDF). Earth-Science Reviews. 177: 545–564. Bibcode:2018ESRv...