Trans-Saharan seaway
The Trans-Saharan seaway was a sea in the present-day Sahara in the Late Cretaceous period to the Early Eocene in present-day Libya, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. It varied in size, but its largest was about 3000 km2 and approximately 50 m deep.
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