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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.
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 extended at its greatest during Late Cretaceous to Paleocene, from what is now Greece to the Western Pacific Ocean. Subduction at the Tethys Trench probably caused the continents Africa and India to move towards Eurasia , which resulted in the opening of the Indian Ocean.
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.
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 eastern branch of the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean, however, remained opened while Siberia was added to Laurussia and Gondwana collided with Laurasia. [34] When the eastern Palaeo-Tethys closed 250–230 Mya, a series of Asian blocks – Sibumasu, Indochina, South China, Qiantang, and Lhasa – formed a separate southern Asian continent.
The earliest phase of the seaway began in the mid-Cretaceous when an arm of the Arctic Ocean transgressed south over western North America; this formed the Mowry Sea, so named for the Mowry Shale, an organic-rich rock formation. [1] In the south, the Gulf of Mexico was originally an extension of the Tethys Ocean. In time, the southern embayment ...