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Other articles where Iapetus Ocean is discussed: Appalachian orogenic belt: …the shores of the opening Iapetus Ocean. Subduction of the Iapetus led to its destruction and the collision of different continental blocks and island arcs. Those collisions gave rise to three Appalachian orogenies: the Taconic in the Middle Ordovician (about 472 million years ago); the Acadian in the Middle to…
Ordovician Period - Marine Life, Climate, Extinction: Although it is impossible to observe Ordovician oceanic currents directly, major circulation patterns can be inferred from basic oceanographic principles. Circulation within the Panthalassic Ocean was unimpeded by continents and followed a relatively simple zonal system, with westward circumpolar flow north of 60° N. The northward ...
The Iapetus Ocean existed in the Neo proterozoic and Palaeozoic eras (between 600 and 400 million years ago). The ocean was in the southern hemisphere, between three paleocontinents. The ocean disappeared when these three continents joined to form one big landmass. [2] That large continent has been given various names, such as Laurussia or the ...
v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Clymene or Klymene ( / ˈklɪmɪniː, ˈklaɪ -/; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Κλυμένη, Kluménē, feminine form of Κλύμενος, meaning "famous" [3]) is the name of one of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs, usually the wife of Iapetus and mother by him of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius .
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The other two Titan brothers married outside their immediate family. Iapetus married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. The two remaining Titan sisters, Themis and Mnemosyne, became wives of their nephew Zeus.
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