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
Location of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean circa ~250 million years ago
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
Paleo-Tethys Ocean
…continental fragments that broke off Gondwana and moved north). It opened as the Proto-Tethys Ocean subducted under these terranes and closed as the Cimmerian terranes (that also broke-off Gondwana and moved north) gave way to the Tethys Ocean. Confusingly, the Neo-Tethys is sometimes defined as the ocean south of a…
Cimmeria as seen from 237 million years ago, at the beginning of the Late Triassic epoch