tethys

The Caspian and Black Sea are remnants of the Parathetys Ocean[3] while the Mediterrean is a remnant of the Tethys Ocean.

The Medeterranian is all that remains of the Tethys Ocean.

TIL: Tethys might look like a moon, but it's really a shrine to Khorne.

Events such as the hypothesized Tethys collision could of course also have influenced distribution.

Now, fly to Mumbai, and ride it time-forward across the Tethys Sea to Asia.

The oldest seafloor is actually in one of the smaller seas: the Mediterranean, a relic of the earlier Tethys Sea, and is about 280 million years old.

The Tethys Sea ran from the Persian Gulf across central Europe and the Mediterranean hundreds of millions of years ago, deposited massive oil reserves, and cursed the region and its people.

From the synopsis page, it almost sounds like the River Tethys in the Hyperion Cantos: farcaster portals that join segments in disparate worlds into a single, unbroken, flowing river.

This makes Tethys and Rhea very tempting places for permanent occupation - they have abundant ice on the surface (easy to dig if you have a power source) and the delta-v's between them and the surface of Enceladus are between 1000 m/s and 3000 m/s, something chemical rockets can do easily.

It might help to think of it less as "Indian subcontinent slamming in" and more as the "Tethys ocean basin closing".

Of her device, the article says: The result is Tethys, a sensor-based device designed to detect lead in water faster than other techniques currently on the market.

India being pulled away from Africa/Madagascar and eventually beneath the Eurasian continental crust is all related to the closing of the Tethys.

Tethys looks surprisingly like the Death Star with that pixel-tearing on the edge.