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Cimmeria (continent)
Ancient string of microcontinents that rifted from Gondwana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cimmeria was an ancient continent, or, rather, a string of microcontinents or terranes,[3] that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and was accreted to Eurasia in the Northern Hemisphere. It consisted of parts of present-day Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia.[4][5] Cimmeria rifted from the Gondwanan shores of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean during the Early Permian[6] and as the Neo-Tethys Ocean opened behind it, during the Permian, the Paleo-Tethys closed in front of it.[7] Because the different chunks of Cimmeria drifted northward at different rates, a Meso-Tethys Ocean formed between the different fragments during the Cisuralian.[8] Cimmeria rifted off Gondwana from east to west, from Australia to the eastern Mediterranean.[9] It stretched across several latitudes and spanned a wide range of climatic zones.[10]
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