Sentences with phrase «edge of the continent»

It spread much more rapidly than hunting and gathering did so many generations before, but essentially followed the same pattern: sweeping into Europe and North Africa, leaving out only the western edges of both continents about 200 generations ago.

Rychert notes that some of the data that generated the 60 - mile estimate might have come from seismic stations near thin edges of continents; she plans to examine data from additional stations in those areas to confirm her findings.

Sierra Mar at Post Ranch Inn gives you the feeling of dining at the very edge of the continent.

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

History is as thick as sea mist, almost palpable as one stands on the lush western edge of the continent, here, at China Beach Retreat, just as the Corps of Discovery did on that blustery November day in 1805.

He is the homesteader to my pioneer, now we're on the edge of the continent together, and the roots are going down here in the thin rocky soil for us both.

There's always something magical about being on the edge of a continent.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

Then it would have continued pushing [the striated caracaras] out basically right to edge of the continent, and presumably would have gone on pushing them into oblivion.

The researchers have pieced together how rainfall patterns varied in southern Africa over the last 100,000 years, by analysing river delta deposits at the edge of the continent, where every millimetre of sediment core corresponds to 25 years of sedimentation.

A small fraction of all the methane bubbles up from the seafloor at cold seeps, which are turning out to be extremely common along the edges of continents.

But the Triassic is too old: Those pieces of oceanic crust have long since slid under the edges of continents and melted into magma.

There are 26 isolates in North America and 55 in South America, mostly strung across the western edge of the continents, compared to just one in Europe, eight in Africa and nine in Asia.

• The edge of a continent is the same thing as a plate boundary.

I come here, to the edge of the continent, to honor the first commandment, to give myself the truth.

There we were: standing on the edge of a continent.

Ventana Big Sur, the celebrated California resort perched at the edge of the continent overlooking the Pacific coastline, announced a multimillion - dollar re-imagination to coincide with a fall 2017 reopening.

Head south for a Swim with Penguins at Boulders Beach and continue south for a relaxing afternoon at the edge of the continent at Dias Beach to then have your picture taken at Cape of Good Hope, the most south - western point of the African continent.

Where painters like Asher Durand or F. E. Church set their scale in contrast to mere humans, Almond excludes people — and where they poised on the edge of a continent, he crosses all the continents on the way to another world.

Live It Well, TT Gallery, Berlin, DE (2016); Sell Out, Seize Projects, Leeds, UK (2016); On The Edge Of A Continent, Glasgow International, Glasgow, SCT (2016); Top - Bantz, The Royal Standard Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2016)

(I would emphasise of course that the satellite data has better coverage around the edges of the continent / Antarctic Circle than GISS, and it is these areas which are the best indicators of temperature since it is here that much of the atmospheric mixing takes place.)

My wife and I live on the edge of a continent, where 5000 miles of open ocean meets the buckled, young lands of Oregon's coastline.

From your link: «In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice.»

Whilst I am sure some will say it's due to the absence of sulfate aerosols in large enough quantities), my own gut instinct says that because Australia does not have large mountain ranges to block heating from the land, temperatures will warm (or cool) there before they warm (or cool) anywhere else on the globe as air circulate to the edges of the continent freely.

Melting and weakening in Antarctica occurs mostly at the margins and not in the interior, and what interior melting occurs, refreezes before it can contribute to sea level rise, while melting and weakening on the edge of the continent, contributes directly and immediately to sea level rise.