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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...
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...
Pangaea (category Historical continents)and surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans. Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed...
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...- Continental drift (redirect from Theory of continental drift)Eduard Suess had proposed a supercontinent Gondwana in 1885 and the Tethys Ocean in 1893, assuming a land-bridge between the present continents submerged...
Alpide belt (section Suess's subsidence theory)Atlantic Ocean. As Tethys closed, Gondwana pushed up mountain ranges on the southern margin of Eurasia. The Alpide belt is a concept from modern historical geology...
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...
Flat Earth (redirect from Flat earth theory)wide, surrounded by four oceans and enclosed by four massive walls which support the firmament. The spherical Earth theory is contemptuously dismissed...
Plate tectonics (redirect from Tectonic theory)Before uplift, the area where they currently stand was covered by the Tethys Ocean. Depending on how they are defined, there are usually seven or eight...- Oligocene (section Tethys Seaway closing)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...
Expanding Earth (redirect from Expanded earth theory)of the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite: High-pressure metamorphism of subducted Tethys lithosphere", American Mineralogist, 90 (5–6): 821–835, Bibcode:2005AmMin...
Caribbean Plate (category Geology of the Atlantic Ocean)The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly...- Glossary of history (redirect from Glossary of historical terms)Laurasia in the Jurassic, an arm developed westward called the Tethys Seaway or Tethys Sea. three-age system The periodization of human history into three...
Gondwana (category Historical continents)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...
Ice age (redirect from Ice age theory)the Southern Ocean will become too warm for the icebergs to travel far enough to trigger these changes. Matthias Kuhle's geological theory of Ice Age development...- Edith Kristan-Tollmann (section Catastrophic theories)micropalaeontology and especially the foraminifera of the Triassic (in the then Tethys Ocean) and the Jurassic eras, Kristan-Tollmann published widely in her field...
- Inland sea (redirect from Inland ocean)Sea (its deep southern basin is a closed-off relic of the now-vanished Tethys Sea). The origin of the Baltic Sea basin is not clear as there are differing...
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...
at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary across the world's oceans; the western Tethys, eastern Tethys, and Panthalassa were all affected by a precipitous drop...
Ophiolite (section Origin as ocean lithosphere)orogenic belts of Mesozoic age, like those formed by the closure of the Tethys Ocean. Ophiolites in Archean and Paleoproterozoic domains are rare. Most ophiolites...
- tell us of a nymph Asia as one of the Oceanida, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys (Hes. Theog. 359), the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Prometheus (Apollod
- BioScience, Vol. 35, Iss. 11 (Dec. 1985), p. 731 [C]onsider the sea-hare Tethys, a shell-less, flabby sea-slug, actually a marine snail, which may be seen
- catastrophic mixing of deep and surface ocean waters. The theory goes like this; 56 million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was only narrowly connected to the