Mirovia (from
Russian мировой,
mirovoy, meaning "global") was a hypothesized
superocean which may have been a global
ocean surrounding the
supercontinent Rodinia in the
Neoproterozoic Era, about 1 billion to 750 million years ago. The Mirovia may be essentially identical to, or the precursor of, the hypothesized
Pan-African Ocean, which followed the
rifting of Rodinia. The
Panthalassa (proto-
Pacific Ocean) developed in the Neoproterozoic Era by
subduction at the expense of the global Mirovia ocean.
Geologic evidence suggests that the middle Neoproterozoic, the
Cryogenian period, was an extreme
ice age so intense that Mirovia may have been completely frozen to a depth of 2-km. This is part of the
Snowball Earth hypothesis.