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Definition of Landmasses
1. landmass [n] - See also: landmass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landmasses
Literary usage of Landmasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mute Magazine (2007)
"Tectonic activity, because it is capable of shifting continental-sized landmasses,
has played the largest role in making possible intense cold, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The continental is composed of a number of completely separated landmasses; which
approach each other closely in the northern hemisphere, but which are ..."
3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"We do not know how far or in what direction these older landmasses extended.
The conditions, during the Miocene, which allowed the accumulation of the very ..."
4. Geography Centers, Grades 4-5by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Sandi Johnson by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Sandi Johnson (2005)
"Earth has large bodies of water called oceans. A globe also shows large landmasses.
Earth is divided into large landmasses called continents. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... and the shallow-water conditions obtaining around the continental islands,
together with the probable lowness of these isolated landmasses favored the ..."
6. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"... can remain intact in an exposed situation, when even so resistant landmasses
as rocky Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard suffer great loss " (232). ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"The two landmasses, elongated from north to south, have a wide eastern part
occupied by fertile plains, hilly country or low mountain ..."
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