Sentence examples for continental elements from inspiring English sources

Whereas in the open coastlands near the North and Baltic seas the maritime component prevails, continental elements gain in importance moving toward the east and southeast.

The happy coincidence that UNE also employed a geologist, Ian Metcalfe, who had unravelled much of the movement of continental elements that now make up the islands of Indonesia, led to a highly successful collaboration between Mike and Ian on a conference and book, Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australia (2001).

The structural architecture of Alaska is the product of a complex history of deformation along both the Cordilleran and Arctic margins of North America involving oceanic plates, subduction zones and strike-slip faults and with continental elements of Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia.

The continental climatic element is attributed to the high amplitude of annual temperature variation, to such a degree that the difference between mean maximum and mean minimum annual temperature, exceeds 40 C. The climate of the area is quite unique due to the complex relief, variation in altitude, and the position of the area with regard to the Ionian Sea coastline.

Just the very-big-picture stuff: creation of complex elements; continental drift; fire; human migration; industrialization.

I suppose you'd call it modern British, but these days that includes elements from continental Europe as well as bits and pieces from farther afield.

Existing coupled hydrologic/hydraulic models have been unable to solve the full Saint-Venant equations for river networks larger than O(103) elements, but continental scales require 106 107 elements.

Its climate has both continental and sub-desertic elements, with rainy and even snowy precipitation, which is intense in Winter and Spring and scarce in Summer.

The method may, for example, reveal the ratio of these elements in continental versus oceanic crust--a constraint for models of how Earth's surface segregated from the rest of the molten planet.

In various fields of engineering, it is important to clarify friction-induced vibration, such as stick-slip motion, for a wide range of scales from microscopic elements to continental plates.

The grandest buildings of this type were the royal palaces in this style at Linlithgow, Holyrood, Falkland and the remodelled Stirling Castle, all of which have elements of continental European architecture, particularly from France and the Low Countries, adapted to Scottish idioms and materials (particularly stone and harl).