Sentences with phrase «very edge of the continent»

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These canals left the edge of the blue - green «continents» at the very points where the canals of the light regions entered them, which continuation is highly significant, since it links the two together into a single system, compassing the whole surface of the planet.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

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.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.