Sentence examples for contiguous mass from inspiring English sources

The Boreal, or Holarctic, kingdom (Figure 1) consists of Eurasia and North America, which essentially have been a contiguous mass since the Eocene Epoch (55.8 million to 33.9 million years ago).

Each superframe starts with a Beacon Period (BP) which is the period of time declared by a device during which it sends or listens for beacons; BP extends over one or more contiguous MASs.

I had assumed (completely without any basis in research or common sense) that there was some contiguous mass of concentrated garbage the captain was steering us toward, but (sadly?) this was not the case.

Several maps of Islamic caliphate, attributed to the ISIS, circulate on the internet to display a future empire that stretches from Southern Spain to Western China, a contiguous mass of land stretching beyond the Arab Middle East to include Andalusia, Turkey, the Balkans, Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, and Xinjiang.

In the dorsal abdomen, cells were counted as periostial hemocytes if they were attached to the dorsal vessel at the ostia, or formed part of a contiguous mass of hemocytes that were attached to this region [ 17].

Let's return to our earlier definition: A continent is a large, contiguous land mass.

A continent may be defined as a large, contiguous land mass, sans the islands off its coast.

The northern Channel Islands near Ventura and Santa Barbara counties were joined in a contiguous land mass that scientists refer to as Santa Rosae.

In this semi-arid region of the country that represents the largest contiguous land mass dedicated for production agriculture, the total annual rainfall may be 18 inches, or in some years, substantially less.

If you look at the topography of the Caribbean sea floor, it is fairly evident that much of the Caribbean island chain was once part of a contiguous land mass.

The four present-day Northern Channel Islands were all part of a large contiguous land mass ∼17,000 years ago, which is believed to have been connected to the mainland and facilitated dispersal of terrestrial animals to this island [45].