Sentence examples for such landmass from inspiring English sources

There was no such landmass crashing into North America's western shores when the Rockies began forming, Jones says.

Whereas Wegener had postulated a single supercontinent, Pangea, Du Toit theorized that there were two such great landmasses: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south, separated by an oceanic area called Tethys.

For such a small landmass, this tiny island packs quite a punch, its 29,187 hectares including seven volcanoes.

Judging from modern conditions, a single large landmass such as Pangea would be expected to experience an extreme, strongly seasonal continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

In continental landmasses, such as the United States, the average relative humidity in dry zones may be consistently low, so that European paintings with wooden supports "air-seasoned," or accustomed, to a higher humidity may suffer considerably.

The atmosphere over landmasses such as the Indian subcontinent also heats up more quickly than it does over water.

Thus, Bharattherium is an example of a Gondwanan faunal element in India and indicates biogeographic affinities with other Gondwanan landmasses such as Madagascar and South America.

However, attention is increasingly being turned to the study of other small geologically older continental landmasses such as Madagascar, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and New Zealand [ 9- 14], which are also spectacular biodiversity hotspots [ 15].

Island arcs and highland areas, such as Taconica (a landmass that would become part of eastern North America) and Pearya (a landmass that would become the northern part of Ellesmere Island), rimmed the flooded continent.

At the moment, I think I support the latter interpretation, given that the Parnaíba Basin was near central Pangaea at the time, and some say that desert environments might have been present in the subtropical portions of such a large continental landmass.

Using previously documented examples, the role of these features in affecting the operation of sediment cascades in a low relief, passive landscape setting such as the Australian landmass is contrasted to examples from high relief, uplifting settings in New Zealand.