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n. 1 in biogeography: an isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses 2 (context Ireland British travel terminology English) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.
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A land bridge, in biogeography, is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonise new lands. A land bridge can be created by marine regression, in which sea levels fall, exposing shallow, previously submerged sections of continental shelf; or when new land is created by plate tectonics; or occasionally when the sea floor rises due to post-glacial rebound after an ice age.
A land bridge is a connection between two otherwise unconnected areas of land.
Land bridge may also refer to:
- Land bridge (rail), the transport of containers by rail between ports on either side of a land mass
- Natural arch, a geological feature
- Land bridges in air rights, covering transportation facilities with bridges for non-transportation uses
A rail land bridge refers to the transport of containers by rail between ports on either side of a land mass, such as North America. Jean-Paul Rodrigue defined a rail land bridge as having two characteristics: First, a single bill of lading issued by the freight forwarder that covers the entire journey, and second, the freight remains in the same container for the total transit. One example of a rail land bridge is the Eurasian Land Bridge. A transcontinental railroad can be a type of land bridge.
Usage examples of "land bridge".
But the greater scholars like Stout and Schultz, both of Nebraska, believe that he originated from American stock dating far back and that he emigrated over the land bridge to Asia to develop collaterally there.
Her discovery challenged traditional theories that the first people to live in the Americas came across the land bridge over what is now the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska.
At least until the Smilodonts wandered down from North America when the water level fell and the land bridge between the continents emerged.
It was a burst of pure brilliance that forced the folk on the land bridge to cover their eyes and spit and exclaim.
I am convinced that within this century artifacts and sites will be found dating the North American ancestors of the Indians back to the land bridge of 40,000 years ago.
But there were very simpleclear limits to how fast such things could be grown, and as thecontinued to throng the narrow defiles of downtownbearing increasingly dire reports of the Celestials' advance,became evident to everyone that the land bridge would not bein time.
But there were very simple and clear limits to how fast such things could be grown, and as the refugees continued to throng the narrow defiles of downtown Pudong, bearing increasingly dire reports of the Celestials' advance, it became evident to everyone that the land bridge would not be completed in time.
The oceans calm and a land bridge connecting both continents of the planet emerge.
Over the last few months the two pharaohs had mustered their expeditionary force of three thousand chariots at Avaris, and now they had almost finished their preparations to cross the land bridge that linked Egypt with the eastern lands to the north of the Great Bitter Lake and Lake Timsah.
Now they were crossing a land bridge so high up that the floor vanished into the mist, and only giant stalagmites rising up like mountains through the clouds told them there was any floor at all.
On this continent, the newly arrived people who crossed the land bridge almost immediately set about wiping out hundreds of species of large animals, and they did this several thousand years before the white man showed up, to accelerate the process.