Sentences with phrase «drifting of continents»

Click Here to learn more about plate tectonics and the drifting of our continents.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

Sometime in the long slow drift of continents following the breakup of Gondwanaland — conditions became ripe for the repeated glacials and interglacials that we have seen for the past few million years.

Not exact matches

Lebouvier's case is among a growing wave of de-baptisms in Europe, one of the most visible manifestations of the continent's secular drift.

The laborers in the manufacturing centers which arose around the new industries, especially on the Continent of Europe, tended to drift away from the Church.

In the course of billions of years continents break up, drift apart, and are pushed back together again.

It offers a snapshot of a time when present - day North China sat in the tropics, drifting north toward the core of the Asian continent.

NASA's Revisionist View of the Moon's Makeup: It's Crunchy on the Outside, Chewy at the Center Compared with Earth, with its erupting volcanoes and drifting continents, the moon looks awfully static.

But millions of years ago the continents began to shift, and Madagascar drifted out to sea toward its present - day location in the Indian Ocean, some 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa.

The amber lens even offers a glimpse into continental drift: a resin - gripped honeypot ant, now resident only in Australia, indicates that that big island down under and the present continent of South America were once one landmass.

During the Mesozoic, drifting continents and fluctuating sea levels created a dynamic global system, influencing the distribution of animals and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.

Rock My World Students conduct a hands - on experiment demonstrating the formation of continents and continental drift.

Students explore theories of how the continents and oceans formed (Pangaea and continental drift).

You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought.

My eyes settle on old map of Africa that hangs on the wall and the mind begins to drift dreamily towards unexplored corners of the continent.

Our hearts beat to the rhythms of biological time and continents drift in geological time, while we set our watches to the precision of Naval time.

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.

The Saatchi Gallery's latest exhibition brings together the work of 16 contemporary South American and African artists, connecting the two continents by reminding us of the supercontinent they once comprised over 200 million years ago, before continental drift: Pangaea.

If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world?

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

About 40 years after the first edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans was published, the first evidence of rock magnetism and sea floor spreading emerged, and a new generation of geologists, who had grown up outside of the old debates, began to accept the theory of continental drift.

But sometimes consensus just means that there is a consensus of skeptics (e.g., Wegener's theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 based on continent shapes but was not widely accepted until 50 years later because the smoking gun — deep sea rifts — hadn't been discovered) or there is consensus because the data is overwhelming (e.g., descent with modification).

To conduct the research, a team of scientists led by John Fasullo of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, combined data from three sources: NASA's GRACE satellites, which make detailed measurements of Earth's gravitational field, enabling scientists to monitor changes in the mass of continents; the Argo global array of 3,000 free - drifting floats, which measure the temperature and salinity of the upper layers of the oceans; and satellite - based altimeters that are continuously calibrated against a network of tide gauges.

But geologists soundly denounced Wegener's theory of continental drift after he published the details in a 1915 book called «The Origin of Continents and Oceans.»

You could argue I suppose that continental drift played a factor and that is an internal forcing but frankly, if you have to move a continent to make my assertion false, I'm no more concerned than I am about a few tenths of a degree over 130 years.

Beginning about 50 million years ago (and continuing to the present day), the drift of the continental plates has caused the continents of India and Eurasia to collide, pushing up oceanic crust from the bottom of the sea to form the Himalayan mountain chain and the Tibetian plateau.

In 1915 through 1924, the continents were predicted to have drifted by nothing more a globe and «cycle mania» of moving plots around... while the experts scoffed.

Continents drifted and changed ocean currents and routed more and more warm tropical water into Polar Regions and that thawed more and more of the Polar Oceans to promote more and more snowfall and that did support more and more ice on land.

Similar objections were made to Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory that despite solid evidence from geography, geology, paleontology, and biology, was shunned until the development of plate tectonics theory could explain how 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.

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.

If we had a continent over both poles at the same time we'd probably get a snowball earth episode that would last until either CO2 built up in the atmosphere to melt it or the continents drifted off the poles or some combination of both.

In fact, the graveyard of science is littered with the bones of theories that were once thought «certain» (e.g., that the continents can't «drift,» that Newton's laws were immutable, and hundreds if not thousands of others).