Téthys (sea)
See also: Téthys
The Téthys is an ocean which opened of Is in West, of the Permian terminal to the Jurassic means, through the Pangée, separating the continents Gondwana, with the South, and Laurasia, in North. The Western termination of this ocean was the Europe South and the North Africa.
The closing of this Mesozoic ocean started as of the higher Cretaceous; total between the India and the Asia, there are approximately 45 million years, it perdure between the Eurasia and the Africa; the the Mediterranean is one of the last oceanic vestiges of Téthys. The recent closing of the Isthmus of Panama, approximately 3 million years ago, between the North America and the South America, sign perhaps also this general convergence.
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