Vanished ocean : how Tethys reshaped the world / Dorrik Stow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1 Tethys the Sea Goddess; 2 Pangaea the Supercontinent and the Birth of Tethys; 3 Extinction, Evolution and the Great Cycles of Life; 4 Tethyan Fecundity in the Jurassic Seas; 5 Black Death to Black Gold; 6 The Greatest Flood of All Time: Rise and Fall of the Seas; 7 End of an Era: The Debate Continues; 8 Portrait of the Tethys Seaway; 9 Closing Ocean, Rising Mountain; 10 Death Throes of an Ocean; 11 Epilogue: Perspective on the Future.

This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the history of the Earth - Iapetus, Panthalassa - but Tethys was the last of them, vanishing a mere moment (in geological terms) before Man came on the scene. Once Tethys stretched across the world. How do we know? And how could such a vast ocean vanish?

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