Noun1.landmass- a large continuous extent of land land mass continent- one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot" dry land,ground,solid ground,terra firma,earth,land- the solid part of the earth's surface; "the...
Encyclopedia Wikipedia </>embed</> subcontinent land earth terra firma solid ground ground dry land continent land mass landmass noun Synonyms for landmass nouna large continuous extent of land Synonyms land mass Related Words continent dry land ...
2024 Across unfathomable spans of time the landmass moved north and west to become India, shifting at about the same speed as a human fingernail grows. Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024 In December 2024, the tiny Principality of Monaco will increase its landmass by approximately 3%...
“It is the very first to be found at such a great distance with no line of sight to any landmass. From this geographical point, only the horizon is visible all around.” FromNew York Times This landmass connects North and South America, thus separating the Pacific Ocean from the Caribbean...
of or relating to the continent of North America:[before a noun]Postage is free within the continental U.S. n.[countable] American History[Continental]a soldier in the American army during the American Revolution. [usually: Continental]a person living in the mainland of Europe. ...
Fig. 1: Multiproxy records of annual and seasonal temperature evolution during the Holocene. aAnnual temperature trends from our pollen-based reconstructions over the Northern Hemisphere (NH) landmass (red), North America and Europe (NAEU, teal), and Asia (dark blue) with the number of 2° ...
packed ice and hemmed in by the landmasses of Europe Asia and North America. The Antarctica is a continent almost as large as Europe and Australia combined centered roughly on the South Pole and surrounded by the most unobstructed water areas of the world—the Atlantic Pacific and Indian ...
We deduced an evolutionary shift in the precipitation pattern near western North America, Mediterranean and South East Asia based on the estimated water isotopic composition from the d 18Ocarbonate and ?47 thermometer. Record revealed three stages of climate transition:...
The first mammoths showed up in North America around two million years ago, but it was only during the last two ice ages that the Columbian species, which could grow to be up to 14 feet tall, made its way to the Channel Islands 100 miles west of Los Angeles. Once the ice melted, ma...
Gondwana, ancient supercontinent that incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica. It was fully assembled by Late Precambrian time, some 600 million years ago, and the first stage of its breakup be