Continental seas have the richest life of the oceans, more species and greater numbers than anywhere else.

The Cossacks were a mere drop in the continental sea of Russia.

Wide, shallow continental seas largely disappear.First known primitive primates and mammal carnivores.

This geological plain with a slight slope to the southeast is the product of a large continental sea that drained owing to a tectonic shift.

In North America and Europe, the Ordovician was a time of shallow continental seas rich in life.

The seven million francophones throughout Canada are concerned about their language and culture, and their survival in a continental sea of English language.

The disappearance of vast continental seas and swamps severely limited the range the massive sauropods and the paddlers of the shallows.

The thin lapping of the great continental sea of grass and flower, starting far out in lonely farm country, moved inward with the thrust of seasons.

Along the coastlines, local effects such as tides and coastal winds, sediments, nutrients and rainfall run-off combine to influence the behaviour of continental seas.

The dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, occurring in tropical and warm-temperate continental seas worldwide.

The marine waters of the shallow continental sea retreated during the deposition of the formation, reflected in a change from dominantly nearshore marine to coastal terrestrial deposition over time.

Asiamerica was a large island formed from the Laurasian landmass and separated by shallow continental seas from Eurasia to the West and eastern North America to the East.

The Pierre Shale represents a period of marine deposition from the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow continental sea that submerged much of central North America during the Cretaceous.

Acanthoteuthis and other belemnotheutids were thought to have been planktonic forms that inhabited the epipelagic and possibly upper mesopelagic zones over the continental shelves and slopes of Mesozoic continental seas.

Once, late in spring, he watched them stop a continental sea of cloud and mist, damming it up like the water in a millpond, until it sifted through their fingers and made them individual islands.

This was followed by the Nauga formation carbonates deposited on peritidal flats in the southwest, which were inundated during a marine transgression of the Transvaal Supergroup continental sea, at some 2.550 Ga.

And increasingly they affect not only estuaries and inlets, but also continental seas such as the Baltic, the Kattegat, the Black and East China Seas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Research on a series of recent fossil discoveries is increasing our understanding of life in the shallow continental sea that covered Saskatchewan during the last 30 million years of the Cretaceous Period (95-65 million years ago).

The limestones were predominantly laid down in a shallow warm continental sea, similar to that off the present-day Bahamas, and are rich in fossils of hard-shelled sea creatures such as brachiopods and sea urchins.

By 1906 it had become clear that Port Victoria would not develop into a major continental sea port and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) began to look for new opportunities to bring in revenue.

At the same time Zeng made his expedition, Portuguese explorer Gil Eanes sailed on a square-rigged caravel beyond Cape Bojador the end of what was then considered the known world opening the route to deep sea exploration, continental sea communication technology and the spherical earth principle.

With no passenger trade, and with all Scandinavian and continental sea traffic suspended, the port was far less busy than normal, but as many as 35,000 men still filled the warehouses with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber and leather every day throughout August 1940.