continental造句

What explains the resilience of continental Europe?

Violent crust movements always happen near the continental shelf.

A few writers have suggested that perhaps continental drift causes polar wandering.

By 1946, however, the battle over continental drift was in full swing.

A diver explores a continental trench in Silfra Iceland in 2010.

Lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains is one of the world's great continental rivers — the Mississippi.

The last undisputed report of an ivory-billed woodpecker in continental North America was in Louisiana in 1944.

At its current breathtaking growth rate Turkey is catching up fast with the poorer countries of continental Europe.

For its part, Virgin Atlantic is examining the potential for flights to New York from six continental European airports.

The two tremendous continental countries shared a frontier of 4,000 miles in a vast arc from the frozen tundras of Siberia to the stark deserts of Central Asia.

It must then, like all the states that have now made their claims, submit copious scientific evidence to show that the seabed in question is indeed continental shelf.

A gap in two large ice sheets would create a connection from lands near present day Alaska, through Alberta and into the continental United States.

People at the talks said the statement would give fresh momentum to national stimulus packages, in particular in the UK and continental Europe.

Russia will have to prove that its shelf continues the Siberian continental platform in order to enlarge its territory in the Arctic Ocean.

Geologists will be hammering at outcrops, making geological maps, exploring the sea floor, and scrutinizing moon rocks as long as mountain-making, continental drift, sea floor spreading, earthquakes, and other planetary features remain incompletely explained.

Although most of the major storms missed the continental United States, curving back out to sea instead, hurricanes and tropical storms did major damage to Haiti, eastern Mexico, and Central America.

And increasingly they affect not only estuaries and inlets, but also continental seas such as the Baltic, the Kattegat, the Black and East China seas and the Gulf of Mexico.

The way further south into the rest of America was through an ice-free corridor between the Rocky Mountains on the Pacific side, and the vast continental ice-sheet covering Canada on the other.

Another depression zone is located in the continental shelf of China. The East China Sea Basin and Taiwan Basin are the marginal basins of the Western Pacific trench-arc-ba- sin system.