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First phase of the Tethys Ocean's forming: the (first) Tethys Sea starts dividing Pangaea into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana.. The Tethys Ocean (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ-/ TEETH-iss, TETH-; Greek: Τηθύς Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
In Greek mythology, Tethys (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ-/; Ancient Greek: Τηθύς, romanized: Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
Location of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean circa ~250 million years ago Location of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean circa 380 million years ago [1]. 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 Cambrian, grew throughout the Paleozoic, and finally closed during the Late Triassic; existing for about ...
The name "Proto-Tethys" has been used inconsistently for several concepts for a supposed predecessor of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, a palaeocean that separated the margins of Gondwana, often referred to as peri-Gondwana, from various continents and Gondwana-derived continental fragments from Precambrian times and onwards.
The Paratethys sea, Paratethys ocean, Paratethys realm or just Paratethys (meaning "beside Tethys"), was a large shallow inland sea that covered much of mainland Europe and parts of western Asia during the middle to late Cenozoic, from the late Paleogene to the late Neogene, and is regarded as the largest inland sea in history.
The Piemont-Liguria Ocean between the Apulian plate and the European continent (Mega Laurussia) in the Cretaceous (100 Ma). It can be seen on the northwest margin of the globe. The Piemont-Liguria Ocean was formed in the Jurassic period, when the paleocontinents Laurasia (to the north, with Europe) and Gondwana (to the south, with Africa ...
Tethys (mythology), a Titaness in Greek mythology; Thetys, a genus of gelatinous sea salp; Tethys Ocean, a Mesozoic-era ocean between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia; Tethys Research Institute, a non-governmental scientific organisation based in Italy "Tethys", a song from The Ocean of the Sky by The Used
The Tethys Trench [1] formed when the Cimmerian Plate was subducting under eastern Laurasia, around 200 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic.The Tethys Trench extended at its greatest during Late Cretaceous to Paleocene, from what is now Greece to the Western Pacific Ocean.