Iapetus Ocean

It represents in part the remains of what was once the Iapetus Ocean.

Its formation might have occurred when the ancient Iapetus Ocean began to form.

The Iapetus Ocean first closed in the north, then in the south.

The Iapetus Ocean which lay between them was closed.

Across the Iapetus ocean to the south, was the continent of Baltica.

At that time, the continental land masses on either side of the Iapetus Ocean were moving together.

This occurred in shallow tropical seas at the margins of the Iapetus Ocean.

Beginning in Cambrian time, about 550 million years ago, the Iapetus Ocean began to close.

The Iapetus Ocean was situated in the southern hemisphere, between three paleocontinents.

The sediments were probably deposited in shoreline environments along the former Iapetus Ocean.

The Iapetus Ocean disappeared under this continental collision.

It is thought to represent a vast sand shoal along the margin of the Iapetus Ocean.

This basin was the result of a deepening sea due to the closing of the Iapetus Ocean.

They were separated by an ocean, called the Iapetus Ocean by geologists.

The Iapetus Ocean, separating the two continents began to open up when Rodinia broke apart.

These are interpreted as evidence that by that time, rifting had started that would form the Iapetus Ocean.

Sea floor spreading continued until a passive margin developed along the new Iapetus Ocean and a beach strandline developed.

By 570 million years ago the continent finally rifted apart, and the resulting basin became an ocean called the Iapetus Ocean.

Avalonian rocks were originally deposited near a small continent in the Paleozoic Iapetus Ocean.

Earth.ox.ac.uk - For more extensive geologic information see Ordovician paleogeography and the evolution of the Iapetus ocean.

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

Crustal material beneath the Iapetus Ocean sank into the mantle along a subduction zone with an eastward-dipping orientation.

In the process, the Iapetus Ocean between Gondwana, Baltica and Laurentia opened.

The splitting also created two new oceans, the Iapetus Ocean and Paleoasian Ocean.

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