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The Alpine-Himalayan system of orogenic belts is the product of the obliteration of Tethys. The Tethyan domain consisted, during the early and middle Mesozoic, of two oceans separated by a strip or string of continent(s), called the Cimmerian Continent, which had begun separating from the northern and northeastern margin of Gondwana-Land mainly during Triassic time, although rifting in the easternmost parts had begun earlier. North of this Cimmerian Continent lay Paleo-Tethys, the original, east-facing, equatorial embayment of Permo-Triassic Pangea. To the south Neo-Tethys was evolving at the expense of Paleo-Tethys. In the eastern Tethyan domain, three large, independent continental pieces, namely the North China and South China Platforms and the Indochina Block, all possibly of Gondwanian origin, took part in Tethyan evolution and effected the division of eastern Tethys into a number of branches. The double closure resulting from the Late Triassic to the present elimination of the two Tethyan oceans generated a double, largely over-printed orogenic system. That which resulted from the closure of Paleo-Tethys is here called the Cimmerides, including a multi-strand suture network t

Author

A. M. Celâl Şengör

Published

1984

Language

EN