Iapetus
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Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek Ἰαπετός (Iapetós).
- (moon): Named after the titan.
- (ocean): The Iapetus Ocean was the predecessor to the Atlantic Ocean, so this name was chosen because Iapetus is the father of Atlas (see Atlantic).
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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:
Synonyms[edit]
- (ocean): Proto-Atlantic, Proto-Atlantic Ocean
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Translations[edit]
the Titan
the moon of Saturn
References[edit]
- ^ Wells, John (14 April 2010), “Iapetus and tonotopy”, in John Wells's phonetic blog[1], retrieved 21 April 2010