Cimmeria (continent)
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Cimmeria was an ancient continent or a string of microcontinents or terranes, that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and was accreted to Eurasia in the Northern Hemisphere. It consisted
Cimmeria as seen from 237 million years ago, at the beginning of the Late Triassic epoch
Paleo-Tethys Ocean
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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 Cambrian, grew throughout the Paleozoic, an
Cimmeria (continent)
…of present-day Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia. Cimmeria rifted from the Gondwanan shores of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean during the Early Permian and as the Neo-Tethys Ocean opened behind it, during the Permian, the Paleo-Tethys closed in front of it. Because the different…
Location of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean circa ~250 million years ago