The Tethys Ocean (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛ-/ TEETH-iss, TETH-; Greek: Τηθύς Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during...
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The Paleo-Tethys or Palaeo-Tethys Ocean was an ocean located along the northern margin of the paleocontinent Gondwana that started to open during the Middle...
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and surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans. Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed...
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Proto-Tethys or Theic Ocean was an ancient ocean that existed from the latest Ediacaran to the Carboniferous (550–330 Ma). The name "Proto-Tethys" has...
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Look up Tethys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tethys or Tethis may refer to: Tethys (database), an online knowledge management system about the environmental...
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Paratethys (redirect from Paratethys Ocean)
when the northern region of the Tethys Ocean (Peri-Tethys) was separated from the Mediterranean region of the Tethys realm due to the formation of the...
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forces in the Paleo-Tethys that detached Cimmeria from Gondwana and opened the Neo-Tethys. The mid-ocean ridge in the Paleo-Tethys subducted under Eurasia...
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have been caused by fragments from the sunken floor of the much older Tethys Ocean in the narrowing gap between India and Central Asia, as the sinking fragments...
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In Greek mythology, Tethys (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛ-/; Ancient Greek: Τηθύς, romanized: Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the...
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135–125 Ma and as the Tethys Ocean north of India began to close 118–84 Ma the Indian Ocean opened behind it. The Indian Ocean, together with the Mediterranean...
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684, and is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology. Tethys has a low density of 0.98 g/cm3, the lowest of all the major...
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Hemisphere and Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere, separated by the Tethys Ocean. "Laurussia" was defined by Swiss geologist Peter Ziegler in 1988 as...
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Tethyan Trench (redirect from Tethys Trench)
Tethys Trench formed when the Cimmerian Plate was subducting under eastern Laurasia, around 200 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic. The Tethys Trench...
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Gondwana (section Opening of western Indian Ocean)
either Peri-Gondwana or core Gondwana; the Rheic Ocean closed in front of it and the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean opened behind it. Precambrian rocks from the Iberian...
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Mesoproterozoic Pontus Ocean, the western part of the early Mesozoic Panthalassa Ocean Proto-Tethys Ocean, Neoproterozoic Rheic Ocean, the Paleozoic ocean between Gondwana...
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Devonian (section Closure of the Rheic Ocean)
separated from the southern continent by an oceanic basin: the Paleo-Tethys. Although the western Paleo-Tethys Ocean had existed since the Cambrian, the eastern...
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European shores of the former Tethys Ocean and has, if so, maintained itself by vegetative growth, floating in the ocean for millions of years. Other species...
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isolated landmass as the Indian Plate drifted across the Tethys Ocean, forming the Indian Ocean. The process of India's separation from Madagascar first...
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Outline of plate tectonics (section Oceans)
Paleo-Tethys Ocean – Ocean on the margin of Gondwana between the Middle Cambrian and Late Triassic Pan-African Ocean – Hypothesized paleo-ocean whose...
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of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basins that existed between the continents Europe and Africa, the Piemont-Liguria Ocean is called...
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world's largest lake, but it is centered on an oceanic basin (a fragment of the ancient Tethys Ocean) rather than lying entirely over continental crust...
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(the "universal ocean") covered the rest of the planet. Other minor oceans were Paleo-Tethys, Proto-Tethys, Rheic Ocean and Ural Ocean (which was closed...
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geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed in 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. Eduard Suess was born on 20 August 1831 in London, England, the oldest...
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The Monte Bolca formation is thought to represent a shallow sea of the Tethys Ocean with scattered coral reefs and seagrass beds. With its combination of...
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older Tethys Ocean, at about 270 and up to 340 million years old. The oceanic crust displays a pattern of magnetic lines, parallel to the ocean ridges...
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a region of Italy Piemont-Liguria Ocean, a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean Nicolaas Piemont(1644–1709), Dutch...
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Panthalassa (redirect from Panthalassa Ocean)
the Panthalassa–Tethys boundary is poorly known because little oceanic crust is preserved—both the Izanagi and the conjugate Pacific Ocean floor is subducted...
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belt is the result of Mesozoic-to-Cenozoic-to-recent closure of the Tethys Ocean and process of collision between the northward-moving African, Arabian...
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superterrane, which divided the Tethys Ocean realm into the Paleo-Tethys Ocean and the slowly expanding Neotethys Ocean. The Lopingian ended with the Permian–Triassic...
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North Sea (redirect from German Ocean)
Basin to the south-west, the Paratethys Sea to the south-east, or the Tethys Ocean to the south. During the Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago...
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