- The
Rheic Ocean (/ˈreɪɪk/; RAY-ik) was an
ocean which separated two
major paleocontinents,
Gondwana and
Laurussia (Laurentia-Baltica-Avalonia). One of...
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Rheic may
refer to:
Rheic Ocean, a
Paleozoic ocean between the
large continent Gondwana to the
south and the
microcontinents Avalonia and
others Rheic...
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Laurussia to the east.
Major tectonic events include the
closure of the
Rheic Ocean, the
separation of
South China from Gondwana, and the
resulting expansion...
- basins.
During the Ordovician,
these basins evolved into a new ocean, the
Rheic Ocean,
which separated a
series of terranes – Avalonia, Carolinia, and Armorica –...
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broke off from
Gondwana and
began to move
towards Euramerica across the
Rheic Ocean. It
collided with
southern Baltica in the Devonian. By the late Silurian...
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marine connection between the Paleo-Tethys and Panthal****a
through the
Rheic Ocean resulting in the near
worldwide distribution of
marine faunas and...
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Gondwana and
began to move
north towards Baltica and Laurentia,
opening the
Rheic Ocean between Gondwana and Avalonia.
Avalonia collided with
Baltica towards...
- Gondwana. It
eventually rifted off,
becoming a
drifting microcontinent. The
Rheic Ocean formed behind it, and the
Iapetus Ocean shrank in front. It collided...
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decay of
radioactive elements. The
mantle though solid is in a
state of
rheic convection. This
convection process causes the
lithospheric plates to move...
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building and
accretion of
terranes that
resulted from the
closing of the
Rheic Ocean when the two
paleocontinents Gondwana (in the south) and Laurussia...
