Tethys
pronunciation
How to pronounce Tethys in British English:
UK [ˈti:θis]
How to pronounce Tethys in American English:
US [ˈtiθɪs]
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- Noun:
- (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus
- type genus of the family Aplysiidae
Word Origin
- Tethys
- name for the sea that anciently lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia, coined 1893 by German geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), from Tethys, name of a Greek sea goddess, sister and consort of Oceanus.
Example
- 1. Qinghai is geographically located in northeastern qinghai-tibet plateau and tectonically in the mid-western part of the pan-cathysian block group and the north part of eastern tethys .
- 2. According to the fact that holcophylloceras caucasicum found in pk-2well belongs to the geographic subspecies of mediterranean coastal areas , it is suggested that there could be certain connection between east china and tethys sea during early cretaceous period .
- 3. Sanjiang area is located at the junction between two giant orogenic belts , the tethyan and the circum-pacific , and affected by the convergence of eurasian , indian and pacific three plates . It has a complicate history from the formation and evolution of the tethys to india-eurasia collision and uplift of the plateau .