What is "landmasses"

Usage examples of "landmasses".

From the scholarly point of view, however, it is equally orthodox to affirm that no human beings had evolved in those remote times, let alone human beings capable of accurately mapping the landmasses of the Antarctic.

Among the world's landmasses, area and the number of competing societies were largest for Eurasia, much smaller for Australia and New Guinea and especially for Tasmania.

At those early dates all the landmasses surrounding New Guinea were still occupied exclusively by hunter-gatherers, so this ancient agriculture must have developed independently in New Guinea.

This planet is fourth position out from a class-M sun, with a blue sky stretched over six small landmasses that cover only about a third of the surface.

The only landmasses available were in the polar regions, where the climate was sub arctic, with a long extremely cold winter, temperatures frequently as low as or lower than -100 degrees F, summers barely two Terran months.

With all of its current landmasses clustered near the poles, Petaybee's light and darkness cycles closely resembled those of the polar outposts of Earth, where both extremes seemed to last for months at a time.

This so-called continent was two landmasses, a wide inlet almost completely separating them except for a straggle of boulders making a bridge at the northern end.

For another, there were now five landmasses roaming the globe: two large ones and three smaller ones.

By the Late Permian Period, the last of the Paleozoic Era, some 245 million years ago, all of these migrating landmasses converged.

In other places, they were diving beneath the continental landmasses, in the process driving up massive mountain ranges by the force of their collision.

The moving continental landmasses collided, buckled, and pushed mountains toward the sky, all with exquisite slowness.

They bear only an incidental relationship to the landmasses that sit upon them.

Although textbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses with names like Laurasia, Gondwana, Rodinia, and Pangaea, these are sometimes based on conclusions that don’t altogether hold up.

Ninety-seven percent of all the water on Earth is in the seas, the greater part of it in the Pacific, which covers half the planet and is bigger than all the landmasses put together.

Many other factors are involved—not least the disposition of the continents, in particular the presence of landmasses over the poles—but the specifics of these are imperfectly understood.