Look up: Panthalassa

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   Panthalassa
   (pronounced pan-tha-LASS-ah) Panthalassa meaning All seas) was the super-ocean that existed on Earth during the time of the super-continent Pangaea. Panthalassa existed during the Permian through the Jurassic period , when Pangaea began to break up; the Tethys sea formed between the northern and southern parts of pangaea as they drifted apart.
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   Panthalassa
   `Panthalassa` (Greek meaning 'all seas'), also known as the `Panthalassic Ocean`, was the vast global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, during the Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras. It included the Pacific Ocean to the west and north and the Tethys Ocean to the southeast. It became the Pacific Ocean, following the closing of the Tethys basin and the breakup of Pangaea, which created the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Ocean basin...
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   Panthalassa
   (from the article `ocean`) Prior to the breakup of Pangaea, one enormous ocean, Panthalassa, existed on Earth. Currents in this ocean would have been simple and slow, and the ... ...crossroads both in the history of the Earth`s continents and in the evolution of life. The principal geographic features of the Permian world were ... .....
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   panthalassa
   Panthalassa, panthalassa A universal sea or single ocean, such as would have surrounded Pangea.
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