Sentence examples similar to edge of continent from inspiring English sources

But he's been using his fellow Pacific-Northwesterner tour mates — the band No Kids and the guitarist Tara Jane O'Neil — to make a stage version of that music: wrath-of-nature, edge-of-the-continent rock.

Australia administers some 43 % of the Antarctic continent and established permanent stations for upper atmosphere observations on the edge of the continent or nearby beginning in 1947 at Casey, Davis Mawson and Macquarie Island (Marchant et al. 2002).

We were both small groups living under a European flag at the edge of the continent".

Bethia and her family live at the easternmost edge of a continent as yet unconquered.

I stepped onto the ice and picked up the pace, thrilled to be gliding off the edge of a continent.

HARTFORD Real Art Ways "A Thought at the Edge of the Continent: Manchuria to Siberia 1942 - 1947" by Hirokazu Fukawa.

Where this occurs at the edge of a continent, as along the west coast of North and South America, large mountain chains develop with abundant volcanoes and their subvolcanic equivalents.

The collision of a terrane with the eastern edge of the continent during the Taconic orogeny caused the continental margin to flex and the sedimentary basin to deepen.

Then, about 10 million years ago, the western edge of the continent began to rise, exposing the newly elevated highlands to the corrosive effects of wind and rain.

Antarctica has dozens of ice shelves – massive, glacier-fed floating platforms of ice that hang over the sea at the edge of the continent's coast line.

What caused the massive breakout of old ice from the edge of the continent, which moved and trapped the Shokalskiy, is still unclear.