EurekAlert!1 个月
Isthmus of Panama Younger Than We Thought (5 of 8) (IMAGE)
Fossils found in this rock share more affinities with Pacific faunas, providing further evidence that the Isthmus of Panama had yet formed at this time. This material relates to a paper that ...
EurekAlert!2 年
Isthmus of Panama Younger Than We Thought (2 of 8) (IMAGE)
The paper, by A. O'Dea at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues was titled, 'Formation of the Isthmus of Panama.' ...
The Economist6 年
The Panama Canal
THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...
PBS13 年
TR and the Panama Canal
the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would cross the Colombian isthmus of Panama and unite the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Ferdinand de Lesseps ...