Sentence examples for continental periphery from inspiring English sources

Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, lying in the northeastern quadrant of the island of Ireland, on the western continental periphery often characterized as Atlantic Europe.

Large quantities of sediment cannot accumulate because they either are dragged into the Earth's interior by the plunging oceanic lithosphere or are distorted into folded masses and molded into new material of the continental periphery.

However, this may not be the case for higher plumes from these volcanoes (Fig. S1.3 and S1.6: 15 km height plots), which could be advected towards the continental periphery and then entrapped by the jet stream before ash settles on the ground.

As previously noted, China seeks to secure "rear areas" along its continental periphery -- in mainland Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the RFE.

It occurs all along the continental periphery of the Indian Ocean, from eastern South Africa to the Arabian Peninsula (including Madagascar, the Seychelles, and Mauritius), to Southeast Asia and northern Australia.

"The greater involvement of Asia's developed economies, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, would help offset China's rising economic influence in the RFE and contribute to a more stable equilibrium in the Asia-Pacific". As previously noted, China seeks to secure "rear areas" along its continental periphery -- in mainland Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the RFE.

Firms are rushing to take on staff, sending the unemployment rate tumbling and creating a conundrum for the Bank of England.Despite a deep, prolonged slump, British unemployment never reached the double-digit heights that afflicted America and the periphery of continental Europe.

Later terranes docked on the periphery of continental masses with geosynclines developing between the fused nuclei and oceanic crust.

In the example we used for the null model, the regions of observed points that do not overlap with the randomized case correspond to the extreme-valued covariances (roughly extreme mean range-sizes) which are associated either with the periphery of the region (small covariances) or with the bulk of the continental extent (high covariances).

Those that develop over land (continental) are drier and hotter than those that develop over oceans (maritime), and travel northward on the western periphery of the subtropical ridge.

See also continental drift.