Sentence examples for rift apart from inspiring English sources

These were almost completely separated by the equatorial Tethys seaway, and the various segments of Laurasia and Gondwana had already started to rift apart.

When Pangea began to rift apart and the Atlantic Ocean started to open during the middle Mesozoic, the differences between the faunas of opposite shores gradually increased in an almost linear fashion the greater the distance, the smaller the number of families in common.

In contrast, kiwis and African ostriches (Struthio) are of more recent origin (Late Cretaceous), when Africa and New Zealand had begun to rift apart from Antarctica and Australia.

High concentrations of quartz, one of the most common minerals found at Earth's surface, may cause weak spots in the crust that determine where mountain ranges form and continents rift apart, a new study suggests.

However, near the end of the Tonian Period, the supercontinent began to rift and break apart.

We've been shaken by fractious politics at home and abroad, with old alliances rifting apart and established icons toppling.

Basaltic lava rocks that are common where ancient continents have been rifted apart are fed from below by near vertical fractures penetrating the crust.

The shield was rifted apart between Canada and Greenland by seafloor spreading in the Labrador Sea and in Baffin Bay between 90 and 40 million years ago.

We were sitting right astride the San Andreas fault; the 1906 San Francisco earthquake rifted apart Bodega Harbor's shoreline, and everything on the fault's western side traveled several feet northward.

They also discovered an 800-kilometer-long now-extinct (i.e., no longer actively spreading) ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean that formed after Africa and North America rifted apart.

The area now known as NE Japan was in the past located at the margin of the Eurasian continent and rifted apart during the opening of the Sea of Japan in the Miocene (Sato [1994]).