A Commonplace Book

Category: continents...

  • continental drift and plate tectonics
  • abundant fossil remains from every continent
  • strolling a beach on each of the continents
  • pioneer women crossing a wild continent
  • seeing the full moon rise over every continent
  • the lost continent of Atlantis
  • the continental shelf
  • standing astride the Continental Divide
  • blue salt water that curls up around the five upthrust rocks of the continents
  • a large stable block of the earth's crust forming the center of a continent (the craton)
  • Australia, the smallest, and Antarctica, the highest
  • the points on the Statue of Liberty's crown, representing the continents
  • the names of almost all the continents starting and ending with the same letter
  • the seven-continent model - North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia
  • the first distinction between continents, made by ancient Greek mariners (Asia, Europe)
  • continent, from continent land (continuous land) from Latin tarra continens
  • geologists use the term in a different way than geographers - with it defined by continental crust a platform of metamorphic and igneous rock
  • Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness (Kahlil Gibran)

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