SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, cilt.220, ss.29-59, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
During Late Palaeozoic time a wide ocean, known as Palaeotethys, separated the future Eurasian and African continents. This ocean closed in Europe in the west during the Variscan orogeny, whereas in Asia further east it remained open and evolved into the Mesozoic Tethys, only finally closing during Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic.