Rheic Ocean

The Rheic Ocean was formed as a result of this.

The Rheic Ocean began to open to the south.

This is possibly from the Rheic Ocean.

The Rheic Ocean had completely disappeared, and the western Paleo-Tethys was closing.

Avalonia drifted north from Gondwana, the Rheic Ocean grew.

At this time Armorica was separated from Laurussia by the Rheic Ocean.

Iapetus Ocean and Rheic Ocean are the names given to the proto-atlantic ocean.

The Rheic Ocean formed behind it, and the Iapetus Ocean shrank in front.

The closure of the Rheic Ocean in the late Carboniferous formed thrusts in southern England.

Neither Tethys oceans should be confused with the Rheic Ocean, which existed to the west of them in the Silurian period.

Laurentia straddled the equator at the time and the Rheic Ocean was to the south of Laurentia.

The Rheic Ocean closed during the Devonian and early Carboniferous, as the oceanic crust was subducted.

The elimination of the Rheic Ocean caused the formation of a massive mountain range through the border countries of the present day North Sea.

Around 360 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, England was lying at the equator, covered by the warm shallow waters of the Rheic Ocean.

Meanwhile, southern Europe broke off from Gondwana and began to move towards Euramerica across the newly formed Rheic Ocean.

In the Devonian Period, Gondwana itself headed towards Euramerica, causing the Rheic Ocean to shrink.

For much of the Late Ordovician, the Rheic Ocean appears to have widened as fast as today's East Pacific Rise (at 17 cm/year).

The Rheic Ocean itself began to close in the Devonian when Gondwana, probably preceded by terranes that had broken off, drifted towards Laurussia.

By the Late Devonian, the Rheic Ocean had become a narrow ocean that was then sutured between Gondwana and Laurussia.

The ocean between Gondwana and Baltica was named the Rheic Ocean after Rhea, sister of Iapetus.

The Rheic Ocean was a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north.

The Rheic Ocean or Proto-Tethys Ocean was eliminated during the Hercynian/Variscan orogeny, and the Pangea supercontinent formed.

Meanwhile, South America had collided with southern Laurentia, closing the Rheic Ocean and forming the southernmost part of the Appalachians and Ouachita Mountains.

The Variscan orogeny marks the final closure of the Rheic Ocean as the various continental fragments, including Armorica, collided with Laurussia towards the end of the Carboniferous.

Other minor oceans were Paleo-Tethys, Proto-Tethys, Rheic Ocean and Ural Ocean (which was closed during the collision with Siberia and Baltica).