Leaving this great biodiversity limited to about 1 percent of Earth's land surface.

This comprises more than 60% of the state's total land surface.

Hot land surfaces will show up as dark grey or black.

But this war could well decide the control of the planet's land surface.

I've never seen a planet with so little land surface.

Figure 9.9 shows a computer reconstruction of an ancient land surface.

And such areas make up about one-third of the earth's land surface.

Much of Earth's land surface is just a few hundred million years old.

Virtually all of the land surface had been built over.

He might be anywhere on a planet with more land surface than Earth.