Iapetus
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Ancient Greek Ἰαπετός.
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Iapetus
- (Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
- (astronomy) The third largest moon of Saturn
- (geology) An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 184:
- So, in the early Ordovician, Iapetus was wide enough to have one side in high latitudes and the other in the tropics: a massive ocean, indeed.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 184:
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the moon of Saturn
[edit] References
- ^ Wells, John (14 April 2010). "Iapetus and tonotopy". John Wells's phonetic blog. URL accessed on 21 April 2010.
