Sentence examples for a seaway from inspiring English sources

When the region around Verona was a tropical lagoon, a seaway known as the Tethys stretched from Europe all the way across Asia to Australia.

Beginning 110 million years ago, rising oceans created a seaway that divided North America, effectively splitting the plethodontids into two clades.

The tiny island kingdom produces little oil but is of vital strategic importance in the Persian Gulf, a seaway that carries 18% of the world's oil.

On several occasions during the Cretaceous, marine animals living in the South Atlantic had a seaway for migration to Tethys via what is presently Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Libya.

Marine transgression was so extensive that in North America, for example, a seaway spread all the way from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico in the Cretaceous Period.

In the title story of Cook's exhilarating collection of short stories, three old friends marooned on a fishing trip hypothesise why they haven't yet been rescued; perhaps a coup d'état in Canada, leading to a seaway battle so fierce that everyone is temporarily distracted.

The paleogeography of Central America has changed profoundly over the past 30 million years (m.y)., from a volcanic arc separated from South America by a wide seaway, to an isthmus that connected North and South America by 3 Ma [1] [5].

Central to the marine industry is the reconstruction of a stochastic seaway using a finite number of Fourier components.

As part of the Old Red Sandstone continent, the Emsian Campbellton Formation occupied a small basin within the mountainous terrain of the Acadian Orogen, and may have connected through a narrow seaway to a closing foreland basin.

He drifted south    down an Arctic seaway       on a plinth of ice, jelly tots weeping lime green tears    around both eyes,       a carrot for a nose (some reported parsnip),    below which a clay pipe       drooped from a mouth that was pure stroke-victim.

Before these discoveries, a theory existed that a Midcontinental seaway separated what is now Texas and Oklahoma from more western lands during the Early Permian, isolating Dimetrodon to a small region of North America while a smaller sphenacodontid called Sphenacodon dominated the western area.