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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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    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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    shores of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean during the Early Permian and as the Neo-Tethys Ocean opened behind it, during the Permian, the Paleo-Tethys closed in front...
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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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    Paratethys (redirect from Paratethys Ocean)
    formed the northern margins of the Tethys Ocean. However, because Anatolia, the southern boundary of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, is a part of the original continent...
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    closure of the Rheic Ocean, the separation of South China from Gondwana, and the resulting expansion of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. The Devonian experienced...
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  • Mesozoic Panthalassa Ocean Paleo-Tethys Ocean, the ocean between Gondwana and the Hunic terranes Pan-African Ocean, the ocean that surrounded the Pannotia...
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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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    coast of Kazakhstania and North and South China, closing the ancient Paleo-Tethys Ocean between them. Blocks that derive from that continent now form part...
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    corresponding effect on ocean currents in the single great ocean ("Panthalassa", the "universal sea"), and the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, a large ocean that existed between...
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    2018, Closure of Paleo-Tethys Ocean and assembly of Pangea with East Asian blocks, pp. 14-16 Zhao et al. 2018, Closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean: collision of...
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    encroached upon by a pair of extensive oceanic basins: The Neo-Tethys (or simply Tethys) and Paleo-Tethys Oceans. These extended from China to Iberia,...
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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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    Panthalassa is also referred to as the Paleo-Pacific ("old Pacific") or Proto-Pacific because the Pacific Ocean is a direct continuation of Panthalassa...
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    Sinoburmalaya or Sibumasu. These two halves of terranes were separated by the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. The Cimmeria was separated from Gondwana around 400 mya during the...
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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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  • Era 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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    Mississippian, there was a marine connection between the Paleo-Tethys and Panthalassa through the Rheic Ocean resulting in the near worldwide distribution of marine...
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  • oceans: Panthalassa to the north, Proto-Tethys to the northeast, and Paleo-Tethys to the south and east. The ocean formed when the landmass of Proto-Laurasia...
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    the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. The Lhasa terrane was formed from the North and South Lhasa terranes, which were at first separated by the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, and...
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    geochemical analysis suggest that there was an ocean basin between the plates and it was part of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean Tectonic features of oblique subduction...
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    to collide with Laurasia's southern coast, completely closing the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. A subduction zone on the coast of western North America continued...
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    Cathaysia/South China was located near the Equator and within the Paleo-Tethys Ocean together with the North China continent and these two small continents...
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    the Alpine Tethys, which was formerly in between these continents, disappeared. Enormous stress was exerted on sediments of the Alpine Tethys basin and...
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    Superterranes, was part of Gondwana and was separated from Eurasia by the Paleo-Tethys Ocean (Fig. 1). During that period, the northern part of India was affected...
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    subduction in central Tibet and Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean". Geology. 36 (5): 351. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..351P. doi:10.1130/g24435a...
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    Late Triassic, with Siberia, which resulted in the closing of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. The range has very few roads and in its 3,000 km length is crossed...
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    glaciation. Oceanic current modelling suggest that glaciation would have encouraged oxygenation in most areas, apart from the Paleo-Tethys ocean. Devastation...
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    Rieppelia lived in shallow lagoons or basins at the western end of Paleo-Tethys Ocean, and along with related genera was probably an endemism. Rieppelia...
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  • since they are found in the areas that the Huns occupied. Paleo-Tethys Ocean Rheic Ocean Muttoni et al. 2009, Fig. 2, p. 19 Stampfli, von Raumer & Borel...
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