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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...
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...
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...
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...
Flat Earth (redirect from Flat earth theory)against Catholic teachings. More recently, flat earth theory has seen an increase in popularity with modern flat Earth societies, and unaffiliated individuals...
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...
(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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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...
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...
tectonic revolution in the late 1960s, the oceanic trench became an important concept in plate tectonic theory. Oceanic trenches are 50 to 100 kilometers (30...- nutrient-rich deep ocean water can feed biological technologies. Another by-product is fresh water distilled from the sea. OTEC theory was first developed...
North Sea (redirect from German Ocean)to the south-east, or the Tethys Ocean to the south. During the Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, all of modern mainland Europe except for...
at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary across the world's oceans; the western Tethys, eastern Tethys, and Panthalassa were all affected by a precipitous drop...
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (section Ocean)net precipitation over the central-western Tethys Ocean decreased. The amount of freshwater in the Arctic Ocean increased, in part due to Northern Hemisphere...
- upholders of the theory of permanence admit that some of the continental areas have been covered, in the past, by seas of almost oceanic size and depth
- 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
- flow across into the Atlantic Ocean, and even pass between Eurasia and Africa, through an ancient seaway called the Tethys Sea, that covered North Africa