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What does Tethys mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
  2. (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
  3. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
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Within this giant continent, a northern and a southern part was created, separated by a new ocean, the Tethys.
Lithofacies and Paleogeography in Middle Cretaceous and Eocene in Tibet: An Implication for the Closing of the Tethys.
Application of this model to the Maritimes Basin implies that this Westphalian epicontinental sea was connected to the Tethys Ocean by similarly narrow straits.
They were the shadows of Mimas, Enceladus, and Tethys, the three inner satellites.
An increase in the relative abundance of boreal nannofossils in Romania during the late Valanginian also supports low temperatures within Tethys during this time.
For instance, Russia's Gazprom is exploring two oil and gas deposits in Tajikistan, and Tethys Tajikistan Ltd.

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