"continental" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Prevailing opinion holds that the archipelago represents the non-submerged regions of the continental fragment known as Zealandia.
- All continents are fragments; the terms 'continental fragment' and 'microcontinent' are restricted to those smaller than Australia.
- Several islands in the eastern Indonesian archipelago are considered continental fragments, although this is a controversial theory.
- These are essentially continental fragments whose boundaries are generally defined by faults.
- At this point basaltic oceanic crust begins to form between the separating continental fragments.
- Later its continental fragments were re-assembled to form Pangaea 300-250 million years ago.
- Through much of the earth's history, they believe, continental fragments have been tossed back and forth, sometimes traveling several thousand miles.
- Paleomagnetism continues to extend the history of plate tectonics back in time and are applied to the movement of continental fragments, or terranes.
- The fragments of its planet, continental in size, massive as worldlets themselves, drove on unchecked.
- As a cultural construct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments.
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