Sentence examples for ancient continent from inspiring English sources

Wegener called this ancient continent Pangaea.

The new downpours have nowhere to go but sideways, across the vast floodplains of this ancient continent.

Having once constituted a segment of the ancient continent of Gondwana, that land is the oldest and most geologically stable in India.

Dr. Gates's research has also yielded new revelations about the formation of the ancient continent of Rodinia about a billion years ago.

Keen to echo the original traders' practice of paying their way across the ancient continent with their resin-based wares, Humble headed to a cave with her chequebook.

About 40 animal species, it is said, have disappeared there in the past 500 years, and hundreds more are vulnerable.That is partly because Australia is an ancient continent with all sorts of ancient creatures.

Basaltic lava rocks that are common where ancient continents have been rifted apart are fed from below by near vertical fractures penetrating the crust.

When these regions are later exposed in uptilted portions of ancient continents, a history of terrestrial rock-forming events can be deduced.

The Wallace line separates the edges of the ancient continents, Sunda (the expanded Eurasian continent including Malaysia) and Saful (the united landmasses of New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania).

Researchers analyzed the levels of various trace elements in hundreds of samples of carbon-rich shales that had been deposited in oxygen-poor regions of the ocean surrounding ancient continents during the past 3.5 billion years.

It gave rise to the hundreds of genera known today much later, 60 million to 100 million years ago--about the same time that flowering plants had spread across ancient continents.