Sentence examples for major continental blocks from inspiring English sources

The Bahama shelf, or carbonate platform, mimics the setting that repeatedly prevailed across the stable cratonic areas of the major continental blocks during late Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic time and serves as a model for explaining the various limestone types that make up such ancient carbonate successions.

The QOB represents a composite orogenic belt that witnessed four major episodes of accretion and collision between discrete continental blocks, such as the North China Block, North Qinling Block and the South China Block.

It is one of the major continental boundaries in Southeast Asia and separates the South China Block from the Indo-China Block.

The Central India Tectonic Zone (CITZ) marks the trace of a major suture zone along which the south Indian and the north Indian continental blocks were assembled through subduction-accretion-collision tectonics in the Mesoproterozoic.

In this study, we present an analysis of the E haplotype block and tagging SNPs in a worldwide population survey of major continental populations using a compilation of data from the International HapMap Project and the Human Genome Diversity Panel HGDPP).

Arsenal has finally won a major continental competition.

They probably accumulated in rapidly subsiding trenches and ocean basins that surrounded primitive continental blocks.

Flanagan listed the major continental European insurers Allianz and Generali as potential bidders.

In 1512 James allied with France against England and the major continental powers.

A combination of episodic upwarping and downwarping of the continental blocks or global (eustatic) changes in sea level or both, coupled with normal changes in the rate of sediment supply that occurs along coasts traversed by major laterally meandering river systems, may have been the cause.

Wetter areas on other continental blocks in higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere began to form coal swamps during this time.