Meaning of Iapetus | Babel Free

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1. A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
   Greek
2. A moon in Saturnian system, Solar System: The third largest moon of Saturn
3. A former ocean between former continent of Laurentia (North America) and former continent of Baltica (Europe): An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.

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“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.”

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