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 400 million years.

Panthalassa, also known as the Panthalassic Ocean or Panthalassan Ocean (from Greek πᾶν "all" and θάλασσα "sea"), [1] was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, the latest in a …

Tethys Sea, tropical body of salt water that existed from the end of the Paleozoic Era (541 million to about 252 million years ago) until the Cenozoic Era (66 million years ago to the present).

The first, called the Paleo-Tethys Sea, or Paleo-Tethys Ocean, was created during the convergence of all landmasses into what would become the supercontinent of Pangea late in the Paleozoic Era. During the Permian and Triassic periods (approximately 300 to 200 million years ago), Paleo-Tethys formed an eastward-opening oceanic embayment…

In 1987, John E. Brandenburg published the hypothesis of a primordial Mars ocean he dubbed Paleo-Ocean. [1] The ocean hypothesis is important because the existence of large bodies of liquid water in the past would have had a significant impact on ancient Martian climate, habitability potential and implications for the search for evidence of ...

The Paleotethyan Ocean was the main paleo-ocean that situated between the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continents during the Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic, and this paleo-ocean has been termed the Eastern Paleotethyan Ocean in Southeast (SE) Asia, where a diverse assemblage of rock units and geological events are preserved (e.g ...

Oct 1, 2018 · After 1.35 Ga, North China rotated in an opposite direction away from Siberia, suggesting further expansion of the Paleo-Asian Ocean, which is consistent with the geological record of the CAOB.

May 21, 2024 · The geodynamic evolution during the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean in the Tibetan Plateau remains to be fully understood.

Aug 1, 2022 · The Paleo-Tethys Ocean was a vast Paleozoic-Mesozoic Ocean between northern Gondwana and Gondwana-derived continental terranes such as the European Hunic terrane in the west, and the Tarim, North China and South China terrenes in the east (Fig. 1 a; Metcalfe, 2021; Zhao et al., 2018).

In the other end-member model, the opening of the Atlantic Ocean is accommodated by the closure of the paleo-Tethys and Tethys oceans linked to subduction off the southern margins of Eurasia. Here, I re-evaluate global plate circulation data compiled for the middle Mesozoic Era.