The Tethys Ocean ( 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...
During the Jurassic the breakup of Pangea into Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south resulted in a gradual opening of Tethys into a dominant marine seaway of the Mesozoic. A large...
By Late Triassic and Jurassic times, the Tethys extended a long, shallow arm through what is now Central Asia and Southern Europe, known as the Tethys Seaway (yet a third "Tethys"). This...
The collision of Eurasia and Arabia ultimately led to the closure of the Tethys Seaway ~20 Ma, a deep passage that linked the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Modern ocean circulation...
By the Late Triassic, all that was left of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean was a narrow seaway. In the Early Jurassic epoch, as part of the Alpine Orogeny, the oceanic crust of the Paleo-Tethys...
Other articles where Neo-Tethys Sea is discussed: Cenozoic Era: Geologic processes: The equatorially situated east–west Tethyan seaway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was modified significa...
Suppose Eurasia existed without the Alps, Caucasia, and the Arabian Peninsula, and that southern Europe and a broad strip of North Africa were completely submerged underwater. Additionally, what if Africa was very much apart from Eurasia, and that the known seas do not exist because they form one large ocean? Then, someone would easily travel from the western Mediterranean across the Black Sea into the Indian Ocean through the Pacific Gulf. That was all the Tethys Ocean. Tethys allowed the oceans of the world to converge near the equator instea ...
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Widespread forests once played a significant role in warming the climate during the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO), while open Panama and Tethys Seaways served as "shortcuts" for the Atlanti...
Riverine inputs exited the seaway as coastal jets, while correspondingly drawing in water from the Tethys in the south and Boreal waters from the north.[6] During the late Cretaceous, the...