They could trace the growth and shrinkage of continental glaciers, even in parts of the ocean where there may have been no great change in temperature—around the equator, for example.(他们可以追踪大陆冰川的生长和收缩,即使是在温度变化不大的海洋区域——比如,赤道附近。)
He persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice began its final retreat.(他很有说服力地指出,直到很久以后,当大陆上的冰开始最后消退时,才有了这样一条没有冰的走廊。)
Ocean sediments presented a much more complete geologic record of the Pleistocene than continental glacial deposits did.(相比于大陆冰川沉积物,海洋沉积物提供了更完整的更新世时期的地质记录。)
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.(例如,斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为,大陆漂移理论之所以被否决,是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。)
The oceanic plate is made of denser and heavier rock, so it begins to sink down under the continental plate and into the mantle.(海洋板块是由密度更大、更重的岩石构成的,所以它开始下沉到大陆板块之下,到地幔之中。)
By contrast, because sedimentation is much less continuous in continental regions, estimating the age of a continental bed from the known ages of beds above and below is more risky.(相比之下,由于沉积作用在大陆地区的连续性要小得多,因此根据已知的上下岩层的年龄来估计一个大陆岩层的年龄风险更大。)
Evidence that an ice-free corridor between two ice sheets developed when the continental ice first began to melt came primarily from radiocarbon dating.(当大陆上的冰开始融化时,两块冰原之间形成了一条无冰走廊,这一证据主要来自放射性碳测年法。)
This route would have enabled humans to enter southern areas of the Americas prior to the melting of the continental glaciers.(这条路线将使人类能够在大陆冰川融化之前进入美洲南部地区。)
Earth's continental crust has changed significantly in composition overtime.(随着时间的推移,地球大陆地壳的组成发生了巨大的变化。)
Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.(下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。)