Sentences with word «landmass»

Nope: Look at the distribution of continental landmasses of the Ordovician (~ 450 MY).

The South Island is the largest landmass of New Zealand, and is divided along its length by the Southern Alps.

As the largest landmass on the west coast of North America, with a population of just over 750,000, Vancouver Island is a massive wilderness with one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, scattered with fishing communities and villages along the craggy coastline.

Another feature of the «Pinatubo effect» that mirrors the predictions of the models is the greater cooling of the interiors of continental landmasses compared with other regions of the globe.

This suggests that brain sleep dates back at least to the evolution of the amniotes, that is, to the beginning of the colonization of terrestrial landmass by vertebrate animals.

Martin is the smallest landmass in the world governed by 2 nations.

Having drifted across the ocean from surrounding landmasses as plain old iguanas, they had to adjust to underwater life in order to survive, eventually developing small snouts (which often make them look like they have a bit of a... habit as they become encrusted with salt from snuffling around in sea water) and sharp teeth to scrape algae off submerged rocks, as well as long claws for clinging to hard surfaces in strong currents and laterally flattened tails which they use like a propeller.

While Antarctica is a continent with landmass underneath the ice, the Arctic is basically an ocean, though the edges of other countries and regions — from Alaska and Canada to Greenland, Scandinavia, and Russia — fall within the Arctic Circle.

Now I know that you have cut back a lot and if everybody did that we might be able to all eat a bit of pastured animal foods without having to turn our entire landmass into pasture.

This model was simulated within a realistic landscape of the Afro - Eurasian landmass during 1,500 BCE to 1,500 CE.

«This is the first eclipse crossing over a major landmass in the era when lots of people have digital devices,» says astronomer Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley.

Based on the fossil record, it is generally assumed that mammals arose some 200 million years ago, when the continents were still joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea.

Most of today's continents (left) will migrate toward the North Pole and collide to form a new landmass called Amasia (right).

The leg across the South Pacific from Auckland, New Zealand, to Punta del Este, Uruguay, is particularly daunting because of its massive waves, freezing temperatures, and up to 4,000 - mile isolation from landmass.

Platypuses, echidnas, and other monotremes were the exception; they existed on southern landmasses during the Early Cretaceous.

In October 2017, the game received another free update titled «The Plains of Eidolon» — a huge landmass which comprises the game's first open - world area.

But if Rich's suspicions are correct, the first and second acts of this evolutionary drama are radically different: Not only did placental mammals live in Australia eons ago, they originated on the southern part of the vast first continent and spread to the northern landmasses more than 100 million years ago, during Gondwanaland's breakup.

Of course, global warming, the universal boogey man, gets the blame Near - surface wind speeds over landmasses across the planet have dropped by as much as 25 % since the 1970s, and climate scientists are taking note.

Near - surface wind speeds over landmasses across the planet have dropped by as much as 25 % since the 1970s, and climate scientists are taking note.

This bolsters the prevailing concept that all the world's continents were once jammed together as a single giant landmass called Pangaea.

But Kirby isn't the only one afflicted; King Dedede's castle and a number of other landmasses have been carried up into the air.

Far Harbor features the largest landmass for an add - on that Bethesda Game Studios has ever created, filled with new faction quests, settlements, lethal creatures and dungeons.

After 150 million years, tidal energy begins to decline as Earth's landmasses form the next supercontinent and resonance declines.

Around 45 million years ago, the Australian landmass broke away from Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent that encompassed South America, Africa, and Antarctica as well.

Large floating forms resembling landmasses exist as individual islands of color.

Pat's general research interests include (1) the evolution of birds, (2) the relationship between osteological features and different soft - tissue systems (e.g., pulmonary, neurosensory), and (3) the biogeographic history of terrestrial vertebrates on Gondwanan landmasses during the latter half of the Mesozoic.

The peculiar snowbank is located on Ellesmere Island, a huge landmass northwest of Greenland that is dominated by arching mountains and sprawling glaciers, and where the temperature averages around -5 degrees Fahrenheit for the year.

By 1923 the entire landmass of Asia Minor and historic West Armenia had been effectively expunged of its Armenian population.

The Moon is a new world with a total landmass approximating North and South America combined.

The earliest mammals entered the scene, and reptiles — including early dinosaurs — lived on Pangea, the name given to the giant landmass in which all of the world's continents were joined as one.

New Zealand acts as an amphidromic node in that a trapped wave rotates around the main landmass in a counterclockwise direction.

Both agree that the wealth and resources of the European and Asian landmass make it the center of U.S. political and economic interactions and the location where any truly dangerous security threat to the United States would arise.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

It seems to have all the right ingredients, including landmasses [sources: Overbye, Kramer].

The increased water temperature will cause symbiotic bacteria in corals of the Great Barrier Reef to produce toxically high levels of oxygen, which will kill colonies of coral that are centuries or even millennia old and occupy the equivalent of Japan's landmass under water.

Antarctica's mountainous landmass remains a mystery, but a new radar study has started mapping the cold continent and tracing its icy origins

The Southern Alps are a glaciated mountain range at an important location in the temperate climate zone as New Zealand is one of the few landmasses between 40 — 50 ° S.

In the Arctic, however, when the Arctic Ocean freezes, there is comparatively little other ocean in the neighborhood to serve as an alternate reservoir that can supply water vapor that will reach the northern landmasses before precipitation elsewhere.

BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island — America's first offshore wind farm will connect today to Block Island, a small, pork chop - shaped landmass off the tip of Long Island.

Expect a much, much bigger landmass as just the tip of the iceberg.

We now have the best evidence yet that an enormous wave of volcanism, caused by several continents crashing together to form the even greater landmass known as Gondwana, was the reason for a sharp rise in global temperature.

More than 25 percent of Earth's available landmass and fresh water is used for raising livestock.

The demo took place after the liberation of Fall's End (previously seen at E3), so I had free reign to explore the Holland Valley region, a massive landmass covering about a third of the game's world.