AMAZON RIVER ONCE FLOWED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGISTS SAY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | October 24, 2006 | Copyright

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill issued the following press release:

The world's largest river basin, the Amazon, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific - opposite its present direction - according to research by a geology graduate student and his advisor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Russell Mapes, a graduate student from Grass Valley, Calif., set out in 2004 to study the speed at which sediment in the Amazon travels from the Andes mountains, in the present headwaters of the river, to the Atlantic. While studying sedimentary rocks in the river ...

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