Sentence examples for islands sank from inspiring English sources

Eventually, as this oceanic crust cooled, the islands sank below sea level.

More importantly, when the islands sank by a meter, the sea swallowed much of the former coastline.

He theorised that as the land rose, oceanic islands sank, and coral reefs round them grew to form atolls.

Overall, mines dropped by Superfortresses off the home islands sank 293 ships, which represented 9.3 percent of all Japanese merchant shipping destroyed during the Pacific War and 60 percent of losses between April and August 1945.

He proposed that as low-lying islands sink into the sea, coral reefs that fringe the island grow upward, eventually nearing the surface.

These include everything from islands sinking in the Pacific Ocean to infrastructure damage during cyclones.

What it means for future climate refugees as their islands sink below the rising sea levels is bleak, as is the prospects of keeping fossil fuels in the ground to avoid further dangerous climate change.

The sandy island sank beneath the waves soon afterwards.Perhaps wisely, other budding rulers have followed Bangladesh's example and seceded.

But as the island sank behind that stern, only one man aboard the Shenandoah, Waddell, knew its ultimate destination — to sail east, via the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and north through the Pacific to the Bering Strait whaling grounds of New England's commercial whaling fleet.

"Plato says that it was located in the Atlantic Ocean and on an island and [tat the tribes living on it took part in wars in southern Europe and in North Africa before one day the island sank between walls of water," Dr: Aksyonov said.

Others deforested the islands they colonized and, as on Easter Island, sank into warfare and cannibalism.