Tethys ocean

Rachel Wood

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2639-2_158

Tethys ocean

Rachel Wood^*

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School of Geosciences

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The Tethys was an ancient east–west ocean that existed from 250 to �50 million years ago. Many of the Earth’s tropical continental shelves at this time were found around the margins of the Tethys Ocean, making the Tethys host to many reefs for a considerable part of the Mesozoic and into the Cenozoic. The Tethys was a center of tremendous marine biodiversity, and regional faunal differentiation has been recorded for almost every major period of geological time. At its greatest extent, the Tethys Ocean was part of a continuous series of oceans that covered the Earth between �30^� N and the equator, creating circulation patterns quite unlike those known today.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1084-1086
Number of pages	3
Journal	Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
Volume	Part 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2639-2_158
Publication status	Published - 2011

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