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Iapetus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Iapetus Iapetus is the name given to a Pacific-style ocean that existed from the Late...shown in Fig. 1. Earth scientists are now confident of the existence of Iapetus, although the exact timing of its stages of development is more controversial...
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faunal provinces
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Palaeozoic, North America and Europe were separated by the Iapetus ocean. During the Ordovician, only planktonic animals such...The explanation for their distribution is that after the Iapetus ocean closed in the late Palaeozoic it opened again a little...
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Atlas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Atlas , in Greek mythology, a Titan ; son of Iapetus and Clymene and the brother of Prometheus. When the Titans were defeated, Atlas was condemned to hold the sky on his shoulders...
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Clymene
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Clymene , in Greek mythology. 1 Daughter of the Titan Oceanus. The wife of Iapetus, she bore him Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. 2 Nymph, wife of Helios and mother of Phaëthon.
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Cassini spacecraft
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...discovered the prominent gap in Saturn ’ s main rings (what is called the Cassini Division), as well as the icy moons Iapetus, Rhea, Dione, and Tethys. Dutch scientist Christiann Huygens (1629 – 1695) discovered Saturn ’ s...
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Silurian
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...and subduction zones along several continental margins. This must have been particularly spectacular with the closure of the Iapetus Ocean that took place at the collision and suturing of Laurentia with Baltica. It was the culmination of much volcanism and...
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Themis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...as an earth goddess, she was more commonly a goddess of law, order, and justice. She was the mother by Zeus of the Horae (the Seasons) and the Moerae (the Fates). It was also said that she was the mother of Prometheus by Iapetus.
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Prometheus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Prometheus , in Greek mythology, great benefactor of mankind. He was the son of the Titan Iapetus and of Clymene or Themis. Because he foresaw the defeat of the Titans by the Olympians he sided with Zeus and thus was spared...
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Titans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...the period of the rule of Zeus in which the classical Greeks believed themselves to be living. Prometheus, son of the Titan Iapetus, was the major culture-bearer in Greek thought, responsible for many of the arts, crafts, and sciences. In some myths...
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Ordovician
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Baltica, and Kazakhstania lay in the equatorial belt with Siberia (Angaraland) close to the north of Baltica (Fig.1). The Iapetus Ocean between Laurentia and Baltica continued to close towards the north with active continental margins on each side of the...
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