Sentences with phrase «smaller land masses»

And they found that the amount of oxygen in the air spiked each time smaller land masses collided to form a supercontinent, like Pangea.

Swim across to the small land mass containing a tombstone with some markings on it.

There were no weapons that the pirate players could use in - hand for instance, and certainly no time to explore any of the small land masses, so the focus was on discovering the ship and battling it out in the simplest of ways this time around.

Not exact matches

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

Once, his theory went, a single land mass covered the entirety of a smaller planet.

Landing a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedLanding a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedlanding on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limited scope.

Other continents were relegated to the «outer reaches» of the page and often reduced to vague blotches far smaller than their actual land masses warranted.

If that somehow happens overnight, the old - line, mass - market automakers, from General Motors, Toyota Motor Company, Nissan - Renault, and Volkswagen Group to Ford Motor Company, and the smaller specialty companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin, and Geely's Volvo (not to mention Geely) would be caught with hundreds of thousands of unsalable cars and trucks.

Small Hope Bay Lodge offers several island and nature tours, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the diverse environment of this Bahamian out island, the fifth largest, and the least developed land mass in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic area.

The reality is that Bali is perfectly safe to travel even in case the volcano erupts, except for a very small area around Mount Agung which represents less than 5 % of the land mass of the Island.

Although very small, covering only 0.1 % of the world's land mass, Costa Rica contains 5 - 7 % of the worlds biodiversity and is home to an assortment of plants and animals.

The land mass is small atop these underwater mountains where the white sandy beaches meets the crystal clear water.

Your land mass is a bit smaller and your icons are in different places, but the game is otherwise the same.

Sea level change based on satellite altimetry is measured with respect to the Earth's centre of mass, and thus is not distorted by land motions, except for a small component due to large - scale deformation of ocean basins from GIA.

Unlike the end - Cretaceous, the PETM was not a big extinction event but it generated enough environmental disruption to cause a high turnover of land animals, the evolution of ever smaller animals (the «Lilliput effect»), and a mass extinction of tiny shell - making creatures that live on the sea bed (benthic foraminifera).

bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.

Warm tropical water forced by tides and Coriolis effect into a bottleneck created by a land mass funnel causes a small sensible energy fluctuation that drives folks absolutely nuts trying to figure it out.

In the northern hemisphere the land masses prevent this and the ocean circulation is broken into smaller gyres in the Atlantic and Pacific basins.

With the exception of some small regions, annual variations account for the most variability in SAL - related mass signals and can be induced by all the loads considered, with land hydrology having the largest contribution.

Once I do some double checking, you should be able to «see» how the slow and relatively small changes in SST are amplified by the lower capacity land masses and the atmospheric effect, to produce larger temperature swings with the same energy.

The majority thermal infrared energy from the Sun heats the water on the Earth and a small part of it heats up the land mass.

Antarctic snow, by the way, is THICKER than Arctic snow, so I wonder how this might figure in, given the HUGE size of the Antarctica continental land mass, compared to the relatively small size of the Arctic ocean.

Although the ISPM correctly notes that trends in the southern hemisphere are lower than those found in the northern hemisphere, it fails to note that this difference is in accord with IPCC model projections, due to smaller extent of continental land mass in the south.

The 10,000 - person republic has a land mass smaller than the District of Columbia, but its government has jurisdiction over a large swath of Pacific Ocean — otherwise known as «blue carbon» for its effectiveness as a carbon capture sink.

How «small» that is would depend on the total mass and area of the land based ice.

It comprised perhaps a thousand species in only very small areas of the earths land masses... rich ys, but limited.

In the final analysis we are arguing about a temperature record made by volunteers with little oversight over many generations on continents where a truly massive amount of land use change due to industrialization and agriculture and where said land mass is but a small fraction of the globe's surface one might wonder why we bother with it.

Another explanation: Land bridge across Bosporus gets breached by slowly rising Mediterranean following last Ice Age, creating Black Sea out of an earlier low - lying land mass surrounding a smaller freshwater lLand bridge across Bosporus gets breached by slowly rising Mediterranean following last Ice Age, creating Black Sea out of an earlier low - lying land mass surrounding a smaller freshwater lland mass surrounding a smaller freshwater lake.

About 25 % of the land mass of the Northern Hemisphere is underlain by permafrost, including large regions of Canada, China, Russia and Alaska, with smaller permafrost areas in mountain chains of many other countries in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere (Brown et al., 1997; Zhang et al., 1999).

Ever since the Mexican Revolution a century ago spurred a massive redistribution of land from a tiny elite to the masses, small landowners, known as «ejidos» have communal rights and privileges unique to the Mexican system.