Sentence examples for wide seaway from inspiring English sources

Orkney is separated from the mainland of Scotland by the Pentland Firth, a 10 km wide seaway between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansby Head in Caithness.

The paleogeography of Central America has changed profoundly over the past 30 million years (m.y)., from a volcanic arc separated from South America by a wide seaway, to an isthmus that connected North and South America by 3 Ma [1] [5].

A plethora of monkey species lived in South America at the time, but it was then an island continent, cut off from its northern neighborhood by a seaway at least 160 kilometers wide.

They represent a broad coastal plain, extending westward from the seaway to the newly formed Rocky Mountains.

The Middle Miocene date for a temporary re-opening of the seaway [ 35, 36] is nevertheless widely accepted, although some marine organisms from the Indian Ocean do not seem to have dispersed through the Tethyan seaway during this time [ 38].

The seas advanced and retreated many times during the Cretaceous until one of the most extensive interior seaways ever, called the Western Interior Seaway, drowned much of western North America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.

Others, like Seaway Trail Scenic Byway, were unfamiliar.

REPORTER AT LARGE about St. Lawrence Seaway and account of a ride up the Seaway on a Great Lakes freighter.

Eisenhower and Snell locks and the Seaway International Bridge (across the Seaway Channel to Cornwall Island, Ontario) are part of the seaway operations.

Speaking into a helmet headset, his voice was as flat as the seaway.

Writer tells about riding up the Seaway in the early days of its operation.