Sentence examples for continental movements from inspiring English sources
More often, this island breeds skilful latecomers to continental movements, such as Inigo Jones, or great originals whose influence goes nowhere, such as Nicholas Hawksmoor.
One reason why continental movements against field sports do not concentrate on hunting with hounds is that class warfare barely comes into play.
(See Locality Maps, below) Tectonics will detail continental movements, changes in global ocean and atmospheric cirulation, and resulting changes in global climate.
This is most clearly demonstrated in the Malesian phytogeographic subkingdom, which has existed as a single entity only since continental movements brought Australia and New Guinea northward into juxtaposition with Southeast Asia about 15 million years ago.
The history of continental movements has been worked out in as almost fine detail as the history of life itself.
Viewed from this perspective, it is clear why it is difficult to confidently attribute clade diversification to ancient continental movements.
A Science article discusses continental movement and polar wander in the Cambrian.
Six distinctive floral and faunal associations (biogeographic realms) can be identified, conforming roughly to continental boundaries, but also reflecting the history of continental movement (plate tectonics).
In addition, evidence supporting continental drift mounted during the 20th century, and scientists described a mechanism that seemed to explain continental movement by the 1960s, which was folded into the modern theory of plate tectonics.
Despite having this geological and paleontological evidence, Wegener's theory of continental drift was not accepted by the scientific community, because his explanation of the driving forces behind continental movement (which he said stemmed from the pulling force that created Earth's equatorial bulge or the gravitational pull of the moon) were refuted.
Geologists carve up Earth's history into chunks that reflect times of significant change on the planet, perhaps as a result of continental movement, a big asteroid strike, or a major shift in climate.
