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

它们在大陆周围形的群地养育后代。

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大陆形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，海洋浅。

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

南美洲也将被水大量淹没，以至于在大陆里会形两片新的内陆海。

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，第河大陆块形，海洋冷，气候模式的季节化开始。

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

“巨型撞击加水是形大陆的种非常好的方式。”

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

它们会在曾经是整大陆的土地形新的岛屿。

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

特别的问题是关于第大陆是如何形的关键传记细节。

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

这碱性环带是大陆分裂时形的，留下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， 出现许多新的海岸线，创造大量的海龟栖息地。

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

18 亿年前，在斯塔瑟纪时期，哥伦比亚超大陆已经形。

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。

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

到 3.7 亿年前，整生态系统 已经在原始大陆形。

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

劳亚和冈瓦纳两超级大陆分裂后，形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样，也是由于大陆板块相撞而形的。

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

我们找到 Joe Meert。他是位写很多关于大陆的运动和形的地质学教授。

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水下，而第批超级大陆正在地下深处形。

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

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，两大陆中间形大西洋。

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.

他们接管因大消亡而空置的生态位，并辐射到盘古大陆， 进入每现代大陆，形许多子群。

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的。