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how Tethys reshaped the world

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An edition of Vanished ocean (2010)

Vanished ocean

how Tethys reshaped the world

"The Earth ever changes, and even vast oceans come and go. This is the story of such an ocean: how it grew to stretch in a wide belt across the Earth, the creatures that lived in it and at its shores, the changes it experienced, and how it shrank, broke up, and finally disappeared. Tethys, the geologists named it, after the sea goddess of Greek myth, daughter of Gaia and mother of great rivers. It began to form some 260 million years ago and vanished five and a half million years ago. How, then, do we know that it ever existed? Tethys has left us many clues: slivers of what used to be the sea floor, a whale graveyard, and oil--the oil of the Middle East on which so many rely today was formed from the decay of millions of tiny creatures that lived in its waters. Dorrik Stow, an oceanographer and geologist, tells how scientists have painstakingly pieced together these clues as he takes us through the life of Tethys." -- dust jacket flap.

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English
Pages
300

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Vanished ocean: how Tethys reshaped the world
2010, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Tethys the sea goddess
Pangaea the supercontinent and the birth of Tethys
Extinction, evolution and the great cycles of life
Tethyan fecundity in the Jurassic seas
Black death to black gold
The greatest flood of all time : rise and fall of the seas
End of an era : the debate continues
Portrait of the Tethys seaway
Closing ocean, rising mountain
Death throes of an ocean
Epilogue : perspective on the future.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-276) and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.46
Library of Congress
QE501.4.P3 S76 2010, QE39.5.P25

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 300 p. :
Number of pages
300

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25273303M
Internet Archive
vanishedoceanhow00stow
ISBN 10
019921428X
ISBN 13
9780199214280
LCCN
2010922420
OCLC/WorldCat
501399852

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