Vanished Ocean - Stow, Dorrik (ECOSSE Chair, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Once, the ocean of Tethys stretched across the world. It vanished just before Man appeared on Earth. Dorrik Stow tells of the powerful forces that created and destroyed a great ocean, its marine life, its extinctions, its impact on climate, and the many clues by which scientists have put together its story, stretching back 250 million years.