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Ural Ocean was a small, ancient ocean that was situated between Siberia
Siberia (continent)

Siberia is the craton located in the heart of the region of Siberia. Siberia or "Angaraland" is today the Central Siberian Plateau. It is an extremely ancient craton that formed an independent continent before the Permian...
 and Baltica
Baltica

Baltica redirects here. For the Russian beer, see Baltika BreweriesBaltica is a name applied by geologists to a late-Proterozoic, early-Palaeozoic continent that now includes the East European craton of northwestern Eurasia....
. The ocean formed in the Late Ordovician epoch, when large islands from Siberia collided with Baltica, which was now part of a minor supercontinent of Euramerica
Euramerica

Euramerica was a minor supercontinent created in the Devonian as the result of a collision between the Laurentian and Baltica cratons .Euramerica became a part of the major supercontinent Pangaea in the Permian....
. The islands also caused Ural Ocean's precursor, Khanty Ocean
Khanty Ocean

Khanty Ocean was an ancient, small ocean that existed near the end of the Precambrian time to the Silurian. It was between Baltica and the Siberia , with the bordering oceans of Panthalassa to the north, Proto-Tethys to the northeast, and Paleo-Tethys to the south and east....
 to close. By the Devonian
Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
 Period, however, Ural Ocean begins to shrink because the Siberian continent and Kazakhstania
Kazakhstania

Kazakhstania, also known as the Kazakhstan Block, is a small continental region in the interior of Asia. It consists of that area north and east of the Aral Sea, south of the Siberian craton and west of the Altai Mountains and Lake Balkhash....
 microcontinent were closing in to Baltica.






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Ural Ocean was a small, ancient ocean that was situated between Siberia
Siberia (continent)

Siberia is the craton located in the heart of the region of Siberia. Siberia or "Angaraland" is today the Central Siberian Plateau. It is an extremely ancient craton that formed an independent continent before the Permian...
 and Baltica
Baltica

Baltica redirects here. For the Russian beer, see Baltika BreweriesBaltica is a name applied by geologists to a late-Proterozoic, early-Palaeozoic continent that now includes the East European craton of northwestern Eurasia....
. The ocean formed in the Late Ordovician epoch, when large islands from Siberia collided with Baltica, which was now part of a minor supercontinent of Euramerica
Euramerica

Euramerica was a minor supercontinent created in the Devonian as the result of a collision between the Laurentian and Baltica cratons .Euramerica became a part of the major supercontinent Pangaea in the Permian....
. The islands also caused Ural Ocean's precursor, Khanty Ocean
Khanty Ocean

Khanty Ocean was an ancient, small ocean that existed near the end of the Precambrian time to the Silurian. It was between Baltica and the Siberia , with the bordering oceans of Panthalassa to the north, Proto-Tethys to the northeast, and Paleo-Tethys to the south and east....
 to close. By the Devonian
Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
 Period, however, Ural Ocean begins to shrink because the Siberian continent and Kazakhstania
Kazakhstania

Kazakhstania, also known as the Kazakhstan Block, is a small continental region in the interior of Asia. It consists of that area north and east of the Aral Sea, south of the Siberian craton and west of the Altai Mountains and Lake Balkhash....
 microcontinent were closing in to Baltica. In the Latest Devonian to Mississipian periods, Ural Ocean became a seaway
Seaway

Seaway was a television drama series produced in Canada in 1965. The series was a Seaway Films production in collaboration with the UK's Associated TeleVision, with production money provided by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , which broadcast the series during the 1965-1966 season....
. Until the three collided in the Carboniferous
Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ? 2.5 annum , to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ? 0.8 Ma ...
, it created the Ural Mountains
Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. They are usually considered as the natural boundary between Europe and Asia....
, completely closing the ocean, and forming the Pangaea
Pangaea

Pangaea, Pang?a or Pangea was the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration....
 supercontinent.

See also

  • Ural Orogeny
  • Panthalassic Ocean
  • Proto-Tethys Ocean
    Proto-Tethys Ocean

    The Proto-Tethys Ocean was an ancient ocean that existed from the latest Ediacaran to the Carboniferous . It was an ocean predecessor of the later Paleo-Tethys Ocean....
  • Rheic Ocean
    Rheic Ocean

    The Rheic Ocean was a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north....
  • Indian Ocean
    Indian Ocean

    The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....