Sentence examples for landmass around from inspiring English sources

The prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago.

Marine connections fragmented this landmass around 28 mya into the huge Balkanian and Anatolian islands [ 96].

This time is well after the last possible connection of Africa and other southern landmasses at around 96-105 Ma [ 18, 19].

The word that means how the continents separated is occurring to Iceland's very landmass continually and around the edges of the island islands have sprung up and disappeared even since the 70s.

In this context, the lineage split between Asterophryinae and Microhylinae (and Dyscophinae) occurred in the Indian landmass during the late Cretaceous (around 70 Ma), and these ancestors colonized Asia by the collision of India and Eurasia.

The direction of buoyage is the direction taken when approaching a harbour from seaward or when following a clockwise direction around a landmass.

New Zealand acts as an amphidromic node in that a trapped wave rotates around the main landmass in a counterclockwise direction.

Tuvalu is a small island nation, with a population of around 11,000 people and landmass of 27 square kilometres.

The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) lives in summer in northernmost Arctic waters but reproduces in the White Sea (an arm of the Arctic Ocean extending southward into the Russian landmass), in the eastern North Atlantic, and around Newfoundland, where young are born between January and April.

The demographic history has been investigated previously, with the ancestral range of the species being defined as a region of Southeast Asia that existed as a single landmass (Sundaland) during the late Pleistocene around 18,000 years ago [ 8- 10].

In this tale, glaciers and, later, solid landmasses built up around it, forming the lake, and Mussie was trapped.