This flooding had a great effect on repopulation of island biota as did the deep straits that separate southern islands from the Central and North Kurils.
These regions are geographically complex: in some cases, distantly separated islands are separated by continental shelves, whereas closely situated islands may be divided by very deep straits.
It's like waves coming onto a beach, because it goes from 1,000 meters deep or whatever up to about 80 meters deep in Bass Strait.
During the LGM, the sill depths of the two deepest straits were ~ 10 m (Matsui et al. 1998).
Bass Strait is influenced by warm surface waters and cool, deep Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters (Gibbs, 1992), as well as the seasonally strong Bonney Upwelling (Nieblas et al., 2009).
Bass Strait it shall remain.
Known as the Wallace Line, it runs roughly north south along the edge of the Sunda Shelf, between Kalimantan and Sulawesi, and along the deep Lombok Strait, between Lombok and Bali.
The formation of the deep Makassar Strait divided western Sulawesi from the Sunda Shelf, preventing further dispersal of Bornean species to Sulawesi.
These discoveries have led to disputes between the bordering countries over control of areas with potentially exploitable hydrocarbon reserves, particularly the regions around deep trenches, straits, rocks, and uninhabited islands.
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