Sentences with phrase «as the continents drifted»

As a geologist, I would like to see more modeling of oceanic circulation as the continents drift and mountain ranges come and go.

Not exact matches

Plate tectonics: Alfred Wegener, 1912; J. Tuzo Wilson, 1960s Wegener realized that the continents drifted around as early as 1912.

The research shows that Gondwana crust was thrust atop North America when the two continents collided, sliding northward as much as 300 kilometers before the two continents separated and drifted apart about 200 million years ago.

Discover how four emerging artists document their epic journeys, such as crossing a continent on foot or floating through the Arctic darkness, in «Museum as Hub: Walking Drifting Dragging.»

Pangea (also the title of a work in the exhibition by Lance Turner) is geology's name for the primal, unified landmass, which has since broken into today's separate continents by the subterranean drift of the earth's tectonic plates; as this apocalyptic year of 2012 progresses, the work brought together in this combined seven - artist show will undergo its own continental drift, and the meaning of each individual artistic practice will become more apparent.

In this show, great continents of meaning and physicality coalesce, drifting in the pools of a history that is at once catastrophic and triumphant, where truth is extracted from the global as a testament to the durability of individuality.

This week, a large iceberg that recently calved from West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier rapidly and unexpectedly disintegrated as it drifted away from the frozen continent.

Icebergs slowly release melt water as they drift away from the continent.

Just as the slowly increasing pressure of a finger eventually flips a switch and turns on a light, the slow effects of drifting continents or wobbling orbits or changing atmospheric composition may «switch» the climate to a new state.