| Many Paleogene fossil birds of Europe have their closest modern relatives on southern landmasses today. |
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| Even more puzzling are two large landmasses to the left and right of the American double continent. |
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| Coal forests of giant lycopods, calamites, pteridophytes and ferns cover the tropical landmasses. |
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| In addition, the Arctic Sea became nearly isolated by landmasses, with limited outlets to the rest of the world's ocean. |
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| The record of Mesozoic metatherians remains negligible or non-existent for southern landmasses, though the Tertiary record has greatly improved. |
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| The flowers also tend to be very small, compared to the size of the flowers found in other landmasses and continents. |
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| Further cities could be added or even the landmasses or the states be edited. |
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| The future Earth Observation satellite SMOS, will make global observations of soil moisture over Earth's landmasses and salinity over the oceans. |
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| Its name, of course, is taken from the ocean that connects the islands and landmasses together into one geographical zone. |
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| The unique ecosystems of Galapagos have developed over millions of years due to their biological isolation from continental landmasses. |
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| The third industrial revolution infrastructure likes to run uninhibited across continuous landmasses until it reaches the oceans. |
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| Pictures of the Earth taken from space show a mainly blue world, banded with snow-white clouds and brownish landmasses. |
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| As clouds move up and over higher landmasses such as mountains, the water vapour condenses to form precipitation. |
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| San Andreas is an example of a strike-slip fault, where two landmasses are moving sideways relative to each other. |
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| This reconfiguration of the surface is to change the contours of the oceans and the number of landmasses that dot your world. |
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| There were seven bridges connecting the various landmasses, as shown in this diagram. |
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| Some continental shelves formed land bridges between landmasses that are now separate islands or continents. |
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| The feature common to all modern depositional sites is that they adjoin landmasses in areas of high submarine relief. |
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| The Mackenzie River Delta, which is a vast landscape of lakes, swamps, river channels and landmasses, extends about 160 miles from its head at Point Separation, northward to the Beaufort Sea on the Arctic Ocean. |
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| Similarities from one area to another indicate connections, such as similar climates, or connecting seaways or landmasses, powerful tools in the construction of paleogeographical maps. |
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| The Earth is divided into seven continents, or large landmasses. |
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| As in the middle latitudes, the presence of major landmasses, notably in the Northern Hemisphere, results in significant variations in these polar easterlies. |
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| The collision of these two landmasses resulted in the Caledonian orogeny. |
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| The island nation is located approximately 400 kilometers from the eastern coast of Africa and, via the process of plate tectonics, is believed to have been isolated from other landmasses for more than 160 million years. |
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| While many ecological problems affect both small islands and large landmasses, small islands suffer their particular problems. |
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| In either case, these dates make Madagascar one of the last major landmasses on Earth to be settled by humans. |
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| The two landmasses became separated when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the end of the last glacial period. |
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| The weaker the trade winds become, the more rainfall can be expected in the neighboring landmasses. |
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| When the trade winds are weaker, more extensive areas of rain fall upon landmasses within the tropics, such as Central America. |
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| Dutch exploratory voyages revealed largely unknown landmasses to the civilized world and put their names on the world map. |
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| The Pennine Basin received input of sand and mud largely from southerly directed rivers from these northern landmasses. |
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| It had oceans and landmasses and polar ice caps, just like Earth…. |
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| However, about three million years ago, volcanic activity associated with subduction of the eastern Pacific Ocean formed a land bridge across the isthmus of Panama, reconnecting the separate landmasses. |
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| The major landmasses in this time period were North American and Europe, which had most of its land covered by water, which were together at the time, and were near the equator. |
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| On the contrary, the landmasses are part of the Arctic countries and four million people already live there, a third of these being indigenous people. |
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| About 200 million years ago, the breakdown of pangea resulted in the formation of the Atlantic Ocean and fragmentation into landmasses that moved against each other along various fault planes. |
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| Temperatures over such cold waters contrast sharply with those over heated adjacent landmasses and result in strong temperature gradients near the shorelines. |
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| Geomatic information-in-depth knowledge of the earth, its landmasses and its resources-is essential in a wide range of applications, from emergency response systems to crop management to resource development planning. |
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| This suggests that ostriches traveled between India and Africa before the two landmasses drifted apart. |
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| An area almost as large as all the landmasses on the planet put together. |
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| In fact, the known association of seabirds with land was instrumental in allowing the Polynesians to locate tiny landmasses in the Pacific. |
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| During the Permian, all the Earth's major landmasses were collected into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. |
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| Both these isthmuses are very narrow compared to the bulk off the landmasses they unite. |
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| Supercontinents, largely in evidence earlier in the geological record, are landmasses that comprise more than one craton or continental core. |
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| New Zealand was one of the last major landmasses settled by humans. |
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| Subpolar circulation in the southern hemisphere is dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, due to the lack of large landmasses breaking up the Southern Ocean. |
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| While many ecological problems affect both small islands and large landmasses, small islands suffer their particular problems and are highly exposed to external forces. |
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| A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world. |
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| By bringing the continent to the forefront of Western attention, Columbus initiated the enduring relationship between the Earth's two major landmasses and their inhabitants. |
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| These climates are normally inland or on leeward sides of landmasses. |
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| Speakers of English generally refer to the landmasses of North America and South America as the Americas, the Western Hemisphere, or the New World. |
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| Even in the interior of large landmasses, transportation before the advent of extensive railroads was largely dependent upon rivers, canals, and other navigable waterways. |
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| By the beginning of the Jurassic, the supercontinent Pangaea had begun rifting into two landmasses, Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. |
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