Amazon River Flowed Backwards in Ancient Times

[Seraphim]

About 100 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/amazonriverflowedbackwardsinancienttimes/20730644/SIG=117l0aqhm/*http://www.livescience.com/dinosaurs/) still walked the Earth, the continents of South America and Africa broke apart. The fissure created a raised highland along the east coast of South America, which tilted the Amazon's (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061026/sc_space/www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/051004_amazon.html)flow, sending water and sediment rushing toward the center of the continent
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061026/sc_space/amazonriverflowedbackwardsinancienttimes

[caridon]

Can we even call it the ammazon river att that point ?
It realy was something totaly different just in the same space asthe present river.

(as a parralell, the mediteranian basin wasent allways an ocean)

/C

[Insane Tadpole]

thats pretty interesting... i love usless facts.