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Mid-Mesozoic closure of Permo–Triassic Tethys and its implications

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Data from the northern Tethyan domain indicate that Permo–Triassic Palaeo-Tethys closed between the late Triassic and the mid-Jurassic. This closure was caused by the collision with Laurasia of a Cimmerian continent rifted away from northern Gondwanaland during the Triassic. The Neo-Tethys may have opened partly as a back-arc basin over the Palaeo-Tethyan subduction zone and rotation of the Cimmerian continent may have been partially responsible for mid-Mesozoic block-faulting in extra-Alpine central Europe.

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