Sentence examples for landmass at a from inspiring English sources

The huge Pacific Plate (containing the portion of California west of the fault) is grinding northwestward past the North American landmass at a rate of about 2 inches (5 cm) per year; in theory, at least, in tens of millions of years southern California and Los Angeles will slide past San Francisco.

These swamps were reclaimed, giving rise to a single landmass at the end of 18th century.

When the Illinois and Michigan Canal opened in 1848, the landmass at Wolf Point was decreased by dredging to accommodate a turning basin for ships.

Given the bizarre climate of the landmass at the center of the bloody disputes — and the series rejects no opportunity to showcase a beheading or to offer a slashed throat close-up — you have to wonder what all the fuss is about.

I thought about how, on this landmass at least, we aren't ever really fully, properly, actually, genuinely isolated.

We proposed an initial colonization of Europe from Southwestern Asia via the Balkanian/Anatolian/Iranian landmass at the beginning of the Early Oligocene, which precisely matches the initial splitting of the most basal leuciscins.

Our maximum likelihood analysis of geographic range evolution indicates that the most likely distribution of the most recent common ancestor of palms was centred on present day Central/North America and Eurasia, which corresponds to the Laurasian landmass at that time.

We therefore propose an initial leuciscine colonization of Europe from southwestern Asia via the Balkanian-Anatolian-Iranian landmass at the beginning of the Early Oligocene, which precisely matches the initial splitting of the most basal leuciscine lineages (XI, XII and XIII) from the remaining leuciscins in 32.9 mya (CI 95% 29.6-33.5).

For better or worse, the Old Continent has arguably been the world's most prolific drug-consuming landmass for at least a century or so.

Large areas of Asia east of the Ural Mountains were divided into separate landmasses at this point in Earth history.

Because of their morphological and physiological adaptations, frogs are able to inhabit most regions of the world except the extremely cold landmasses at high latitudes and some oceanic islands that they have been unable to colonize because of the barriers provided by salt water.