On: The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History

[dwighttk]

map has largest and smallest extent lines and the Aral Sea is outside the largest extent line

[simonh → dwighttk]

Fair enough, so I suppose at some point the Aral basin sank below the waterline and filled from the Paratethys or what remained of it. Those waterline marks must still only pertain to a particular period of time.