They raise their young in groups, or colonies, on ice that forms around the continent.

它们在大陆周围形成的冰成群地养育后代。

This unique population distribution creates a lot of fascinatingly bizarre situations across the continent.

这种独特的人口分布在整个大陆形成了许多令人着迷的怪异情况。

Earth's crust thickens and heavy continents form, the oceans become shallower.

地壳厚，厚重的大陆形成，海洋浅。

South America would also be severely flooded with two new inland seas existing on the continent.

南美洲也将被大量淹没，以至于在大陆里会形成两片新的内陆海。

With temperatures dropping, the first ice caps formed, the oceans cooled, and seasonal changes in weather patterns began.

随着温度的下降，第一个冰河大陆块形成了，海洋冷了，气候模式的季节化开始了。

" Giant impacts plus water is a really good way of making a continent, " says Dr Johnson.

“巨型撞击是形成大陆的一种非常好的方式。”

Which would form new islands out of what used to be entire continents.

它们会在曾经是整个大陆的土地形成新的岛屿。

A particular problem is the crucial biographical detail of how the first continents came to be.

一个特别的问题是关于第一个大陆是如何形成的关键传记细节。

This alkaline ring complex, formed when continents broke apart, left behind a valley with remarkably fertile soil.

这个碱性环带是大陆分裂时形成的，留下了一个土壤非常肥沃的山谷。

As new, smaller continents formed, lots of new coastlines appeared, creating plenty of sea turtle habitat.

随着新的、较小的大陆形成， 出现了许多新的海岸线，创造了大量的海龟栖息地。

8 Billion Years Ago in the Statherian the supercontinent Columbia has formed.

18 亿年前，在斯塔瑟时期，哥伦比亚超大陆已经形成。

It can also, of course, be formed by just movements of the continents on earth.

当然，它也可以由地球大陆的运动形成。

By 370 million years ago entire ecosystems had developed on the primeval continents.

到 3.7 亿年前，整个生态系统 已经在原始大陆形成。

The supercontinents of Laurasia and Gondwanaland fractured, forming the lands that man would inhabit millions of years later.

劳亚和冈瓦纳两个超级大陆分裂后，形成了人类在亿万年后居住的大陆。

These, the highest mountains in the world, like other great ranges, were created by the collision of continents.

这些世界最高的山峰与其它大型山脉一样，也是由于大陆板块相撞而形成的。

And we found Joe Meert. A geology professor who's written a bunch about the movement and formation of continents.

我们找到了 Joe Meert。他是一位写了很多关于大陆的运动和形成的地质学教授。

Most of Earth is still underwater while the first supercontinents are in the making in the depths below.

地球的大部分地区仍处于下，而第一批超级大陆正在地下深处形成。

A huge volcanic rift opened in the middle of the planet; eventually splitting the Americas from Europe and Africa, and forming the Atlantic Ocean.

一个巨大的火山裂谷在地球的中央裂开；最终将美洲从欧洲和非洲中分裂出来，两个大陆中间形成了大西洋。

They took over niches that had been left vacant by the Great Dying, and radiated across Pangea, onto every modern continent, into a host of subgroups.

他们接管了因大消亡而空置的生态位，并辐射到盘古大陆， 进入每一个现代大陆，形成许多子群。

Jamieson said the researchers think that when Antarctica's climate was warmer, rivers flowed toward a continental coastline that was created as the other land masses broke away.

贾米森说，研究人员认为，当南极洲的气候暖时，河流流向大陆海岸线，这是由于其他大陆块分离而形成的。