• The 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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    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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    Laurasia (redirect from Proto-Laurasia)
    (340 Mya). The Variscan orogeny closed the Rheic Ocean (between Avalonia and Armorica) and the Proto-Tethys Ocean (between Armorica and Gondwana) to form the...
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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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  • 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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    Gondwana (redirect from Proto-Gondwana)
    blocks rifted from Gondwana during the middle Paleozoic and opened the Proto-Tethys Ocean. North China docked with Mongolia and Siberia during the Carboniferous–Permian...
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    basement of Avalonia is poorly known, but, based on isotopic analyses, proto-Avalonia most likely evolved together with Carolina about 800 Ma from volcanic...
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    The vast ocean of Panthalassa covered most of the northern hemisphere. Other minor oceans include Proto-Tethys, Paleo-Tethys, Rheic Ocean, a seaway of...
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  • 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 (shortly...
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    Panthalassa (redirect from Proto-Pacific)
    also referred to as the Paleo-Pacific ("old Pacific") or Proto-Pacific because the Pacific Ocean is a direct continuation of Panthalassa. The supercontinent...
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  • redirect targets Proto-Tethys Ocean – Ancient ocean that existed from the latest Ediacaran to the Carboniferous Rheic Ocean – Ancient ocean which separated...
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    environment. This was located on the edge of Avalonia bordering the Proto-Tethys Ocean. Apart from the largest arthropod, Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, found...
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    with the Asian plate, cut off the Tethys Seaway that had provided a low-latitude ocean circulation. The closure of Tethys built some new mountains (the Zagros...
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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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    to have been the result of an Andean-type orogeny caused when the Proto-Tethys Ocean was subducted after Gondwana was finally amalgamated. In the Middle...
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    Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. Eight of the Titan brothers and sisters married each other: Oceanus and Tethys, Coeus and Phoebe, Hyperion...
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    Hesiod, with Uranus and Gaia as the parents of Oceanus and Tethys, and Oceanus and Tethys as the parents of Cronus and Rhea and the other Titans. In Roman...
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  • their cave at the edge of the ocean making splendiferous artifacts." "Eurynome is among the daughters of Ocean and Tethys." "Eurynome bore the Graces to...
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    – British Isles -Germany – southwest Sweden area. The Rheic Ocean or Proto-Tethys Ocean was eliminated during the Hercynian/Variscan orogeny, and the...
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    E. (October 1999). "Stratigraphy and sedimentary history of the Nepal Tethys Himalaya passive margin". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 17 (5–6): 805–827...
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    daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. The name Doris is derived from the noun for a gift, δῶρον, from proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom of the same meaning...
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  • 2014). "Heterogeneous oxygenation states in the Atlantic and Tethys oceans during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 404: 178–189...
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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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    Theogony 507–511, Clymene, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius...
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    Norway and Greenland, connecting the Tethys to the Arctic Ocean and enabling biotic exchange between the two oceans. At the peak of the Cretaceous transgression...
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    History of Earth (redirect from Proto-earth)
    synthesis at about 100 °C (212 °F) and at ocean-bottom pressures near hydrothermal vents. In this hypothesis, the proto-cells would be confined in the pores...
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    collide with Laurasia's southern coast, completely closing the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. A subduction zone on the coast of western North America continued to...
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    stages. The stages were controlled by the opening and closing of the Tethys Ocean separating Gondwana from Eurasia. Gondwana was in the south and Eurasia...
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    Plate Piemont-Liguria Plate – Former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean Proto-Alps Terrane Rhenohercynian Plate – Fold belt...
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