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De Geer Land Bridge

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The De Geer Land Bridge was a proposed land bridge connecting Fennoscandia to northern Greenland, thought to have provided a northern route between Europe and North America from the Late Cretaceous into the Early Paleocene. The exact timeframe of its existence remains disputed among researchers.

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Cretaceous, Eras
Source De Geer Land Bridge (Wikipedia)
Paleocene, Eras
Source De Geer Land Bridge (Wikipedia)

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Wikidata P31 (Q864812) mapped to discipline Geomorphology via earth5 extended reviewed judgment map; source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: De Geer Land Bridge
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was a land bridge that connected Fennoscandia to northern Greenland.
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Wikidata: De Geer Land Bridge
Wikidata Q113127386, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
De Geer Land Bridge (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Cretaceous, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The land bridge provided a northern route from Europe to North America from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Paleocene, although this timeframe has been disputed.
  • Associated With: Paleocene, Lead, age Paleocene
    The land bridge provided a northern route from Europe to North America from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Paleocene, although this timeframe has been disputed.
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