Sentence examples for low-lying continent from inspiring English sources
Our reconstructed paleotopography suggests that Africa was largely a low-lying continent dominated by its cratons, and that basement distribution disregards the present-day uplift patterns of Africa.
The western part of that continent has a low-lying ice sheet that appears to be highly vulnerable to attack by warmer ocean water.
These movements' growing power at home forced a tremendous promise abroad: an aspiration to keep the world to 1.5 degrees of warming, above which spells disaster for Indigenous peoples, low-lying island nations, and the African continent.
So it's perhaps no surprise that these two continents – along with the low-lying island nations – have pushed hardest for a global climate deal.
Cincinnati Arch, geologic anticlinal (archlike) structure influential during the Paleozoic Era (542 million to 251 million years ago); it existed as a persistent low-lying land area flanked by seas covering a large part of the continent while connected with the ocean.
An increasing summer thaw of ice on the edges of Antarctica, twinned with less than expected snowfall on the frozen continent, is also adding slightly to sea level rise in a threat to low-lying areas around the world, it said.
"But these low-lying areas?
Low-lying areas are inundated.
The banks are predominantly low-lying.
