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1. Iapetus was the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.

Leading Hemisphere

1. The second model says that the dark material erupted from the interior of Iapetus into a low area in the leading hemisphere.

Scotland

1. Where the Iapetus was, mountains are thrust up, remnant strata of which remain today in Greenland, Norway, Scotland, Ireland and north-eastern North America.

Continent

1. Some time around 600 million ago the “over-stretched” continent of Rodinia ruptured allowing the generation of another ocean, Iapetus.

Asia

1. An Oceanid also called Asia, the wife of Iapetus.

Moon

1. The moon with the split personality, Iapetus, presents a perplexing appearance in the latest images snapped by the Cassini spacecraft.

Water Ice

1. The outer satellites Hyperion and Iapetus also consist mainly of water ice.

Iapetus Ocean

1. The Iapetus Ocean was an ocean that existed in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale (between 600 and 400 million years ago).
2. This rock was originally deposited as sediment at the bottom of the Iapetus Ocean.

Ocean

1. Laurentia collides with Baltica closing the northen branch of the Iapetus Ocean and forming the "Old Red Sandstone" continent.
2. This movement closed the Iapetus Ocean while at the same time opening the Rheic Ocean.
3. The Iapetus Ocean was an Ocean that existed in the Southern Hemisphere between Scotland, England and Scandinavia between 400 and 600 million years ago.

Titan

1. To the right of Titan are Iapetus (top) and irregularly shaped Hyperion (bottom).

Formation

1. Present estimates place the formation of the Iapetus Ocean in the Late Precambrian (between 600 and 550 million years ago).

Caledonian Orogeny

1. The Caldonian (Iapetus) plate cycle saw the formation of the Iapetus suture during the Caledonian orogeny.
2. The Iapetus Ocean is slowly closing and by the Silurian the two continental blocks collide producing the Caledonian orogeny.

Father

1. He failed to persuade his father Iapetus and his elder brother Atlas not to resist against Zeus, but without avail.
2. Prometheus unsuccessfully tried to persuade his father Iapetus and his eldest brother, Atlas, to change side.

Themis

1. Prometheus, the Titan son of Iapetus and Themis, is a favorite subject with the poets.

Phoebe

1. The first proposes that dark material from Phoebe, a dark exterior moon, falls onto Iapetus from orbit.

Continents

1. Around 800 million years ago the supercontinent Rodinia contained the cratons that would later form the continents that would bound the Iapetus.

Rodinia

1. This is thought to be the signaling of the beginning of rifting in Rodinia and the birth of the Iapetus Ocean.

Saturn

1. In Paris, Cassini discovered the second satellite of Saturn, Iapetus, in 1671 and correctly explained its brightness variations.
2. Cassini first observed Iapetus in 1671 on the west side of Saturn, but failed to observe it on the east side in 1672 even though he knew it was there.

Son

1. Prometheus, the son of the Titan Iapetus, became the first warrior and advisor of Zeus during this war.

Deucalion

1. Bk I:68-88. The son of Iapetus by the nymph Cleomene, and father of Deucalion.

Dione

1. Titan,[b] Iapetus,[c] Rhea,[c] Tethys,[d] and Dione[d] Five of Saturn 's larger moons, discovered by Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

Atlas

1. Atlas: Titan; held world on his shoulders as punishment for warring against Zeus; son of Iapetus.
2. Atlas - Son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus.
3. The Iapetus Ocean was therefore named for the titan Iapetus, who in Greek mythology was the father of Atlas.

Rifting

1. The rifting also spawned two new oceans, the Iapetus and Khanty Ocean s.
2. The rifting also spawned two new oceans, the Iapetus Ocean and Khanty Ocean.
3. Rifting of this second land mass caused the formation of a small ocean called the Iapetus.

Titans

1. Atlas is a scion of the Titans, the Greek race of giants, and the son of Iapetus and the nymph Clymene.
2. Iapetus Discovered by Cassini in 1671 and named by John Herschel for one of the Titans.

Epimetheus

1. She was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and by him bore Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius.

Gondwana

1. To the southeast, the Baltic Plate with the continent Baltica was separated from Gondwana by the Iapetus Ocean.

Baltica

1. The ocean between Gondwana and Baltica was then named Rheic Ocean for Rhea, sister of Iapetus.
2. It was caused by the closure of the Iapetus Ocean when the continents and terranes of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia collided.

Clymene

1. Menoetius "Doomed Might": Son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, titan god of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality.
2. Epimetheus ("afterthought") is the son of Iapetus and Clymene.
3. A Titan, fathered by the Titan Iapetus and variously reported to be born either to the Titan Themis, or to one of the Oceanids, Clymene or Asia.

Prometheus

1. Iapetus, through Prometheus, is related to Deucalion, the founder of the human race, after Zeus had destroyed the world with a great flood.
2. She was the wife of Iapetus and bore him Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
3. One of popular Titans, son of Iapetus, was Prometheus.

Iapetus

1. Some of the offspring of the twelve are also counted as Titans, most notably the sons of Iapetus - Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius.
2. Prometheus was a son of Iapetus by Clymene (one of the Oceanids).
3. Son of the Titan, Iapetus, and the nymph, Clymene (Asia), and the brother of Prometheus.

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1. Prometheus
2. Clymene
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4. Epimetheus
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