Sentences with phrase «coast as the continent»

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If correct, the theory would explain how the deep interiors of forested continents get as much rain as the coast, and how most of Australia turned from forest to desert.

The research identified landslides along the submerged margin of the North American continent as the leading potential source of dangerous tsunamis to the East Coast.

«Genomes from this migration seeped right across the continent, way beyond East Africa, from the Yoruba on the western coast to the Mbuti in the heart of the Congo — who show as much as 7 % and 6 % of their genomes respectively to be West Eurasian,» said Marcos Gallego Llorente, first author of the study, also from Cambridge's Zoology Department.

I hear tales in my family of great great great Aunts and Uncles sailing from Liverpool and taking the road trains over the mighty continent of America to the West Coast, and think how sad and scared those goodbyes must have been as mothers fare - welled daughters and sons with only the hope of a letter or two.

There is a flashback showing him as a mere baby with his parents after they are shipwrecked somewhere on the continent of Africa (in the book its the Atlantic coast of Africa).

Jake Arnott's decade - spanning, continent - hopping novel mixes fascinating real - life figures with fictional characters as it moves briskly from WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming) and occultism (Aleister Crowley) to the West Coast pulp science - fiction set (Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein — even L. Ron Hubbard) and the»80s U.K. new wave music scene.

Journey to Kangaroo Island, located off the continent's southern coast and known as «Australia's Galapagos.»

Our guided European trips are as varied as the continent itself, from a hiking adventure in the Scottish Highlands to an action - packed family sojourn in the Swiss Alps, from a photography workshop in Paris to a voyage by tall ship along the coasts of Greece and Turkey.

This reef system is located in the east coast of the Australian Continent and is considered as the biggest reef system in the planet.

After 30 + million years of cooling, 2 to 3 million years ago, colder ocean waters eventually upwelled in the mid latitudes along the west coasts of major continents as well as along the equator.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

The priority, however, is the Antarctic region (Southern Ocean or «Antarctic Ocean»), that is, the water masses extending south of the Polar Front (formerly known as the Antarctic Convergence) to the coasts of the Antarctic continent (Figure 1).

As a result, relatively mild weather occurs along the western coasts of continents with north - south mountain ranges when compared with continental interiors.

The inversion acts as a barrier to vertical convection and is largely responsible for the aridity and high frequency of fog found along the west coasts of the subtropical continents, especially in summer.

Off the west coasts of the American continents in the trade - wind belts, upwelling of cold subsurface water causes the overlying air to be cooled below its dew point (the air temperature below which water vapour condenses as dew), with the consequent widespread formation of low, thick clouds.

If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy — not to mention meteorology — as essentially the hypothesis means that the world's forest play a major role in driving precipitation from the coast into a continent's interior.

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has launched an affiliate office on Africa's Ivory Coast as it looks to increase dealflow coming in and out of the continent.