The Valais Ocean is a disappeared piece of oceanic crust which was situated between the continent Europe and the microcontinent Iberia or so called Briançonnais microcontinent. The Valais Ocean is together with other small disappeared oceanic basins often called the Alpine or Western Tethys Ocean.
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