INLAND SEA collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of inland and sea
inland
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/ˈɪn.lənd/us
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/ˈɪn.lənd/
in the middle of a country, away from ...
sea
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/siː/us
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/siː/
the salty water that covers a large part of the surface of the earth, or a large area of salty water, smaller than an ocean, that is partly or completely surrounded ...
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The consequences of climatic fluctuations that are included in the discussion are sea-level changes, erosion, mass movements, inland sea evolution, floods, and the impacts on the biological and human records.
I do not know whether any of you have seen the algal bloom in this large, previously healthy, inland sea.
The theory of the inland sea had many adherents.
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It has been compared to an inland sea.
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There are heavy sandbanks, and the inland sea, which looks so impressive on the map, is nothing but a shallow pond.
But that in no way affects the general argument for immediate decisive operations to obtain full and unquestioned command of the inland sea.
The chalk was deposited in the area by an ancient inland sea.
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The wild and rapid rivers of the mountains slowly made that inland sea disappear.
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Fossils are found of sea creatures from the recession and adjacent inland sea at that time.
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A large shallow depression to the west formed an inland sea.
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Both formations are the result of the ancient inland sea that covered the area.
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Approximately 250 million years ago, the region was located near the edge of an inland sea.
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We are coming from the mountains, from the plains and inland sea!
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A theory was developed of a vast inland sea into which these rivers flowed.
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At the same time, an inland sea began to encroach on the continent from the north.
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One possibility is that the deposits were formed when a prehistoric inland sea evaporated.
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The northwestern part of the island includes an inland sea as well as a small island within it.
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The area preserved in this formation was a large floodplain that drained into a shallow inland sea.
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Near the coast, the combined effects of strong, onshore winds and little rain led to significant inland sea spray.
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The bay is surrounded by land in all directions, thus it appears as an inland sea on maps.
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Sediment left by an ancient inland sea 500-200 million years ago had since become pressed into layers of rock.
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This area features rocks such as limestone which were deposited here when the area formed the shoreline of an ancient inland sea.
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Erhardt was struck by the fact that travelers who had gone inland from different points on the coast had all come to an inland sea.
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The sandstone rock once formed the bottom of a shallow inland sea where the remains of aquatic plants and animals were preserved.
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The land periodically uplifted and subsided over millions of years giving rise to some small mountains and, eventually, an inland sea.
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