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What is the definition of 'Landmass'?
A landmass is a large, continuous, and unbroken area such as an island or a continent. Synonyms for the word landmass include continent, mainland, and main.
What is the large landmass called that contains Europe and Russia?
The combined landmass of Europe and Asia was called Eurasia.
What element is not found in large quantities in Earths mantle?
The element carbon is not found in large quantities in Earths mantle.
What causes thinning in the earths crust?
Thinning of the Earth's crust is caused by the Earth's mantle heating up and expanding. As the mantle expands, large areas of the crust fall in, where they are melted.
What caused Pangea to separate?
I believe that when the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs hit the earth, the destruction of the dinosaurs was not the only effect. It also caused the separation of the large land mass to separate by creating a weakness in the land mass that allowed the tectonic plates to shift and move slowly over millions of years.
What caused the large landmass to separate?
Convection currents in the Earth's mantle driven by heat energy from the core.
What is a large landmass that is part of the earths crust?
continents
Why is Europe considered as a separate region?
Europe is a often cocidered a separate region because of its large size. It is not a distinct landmass such as Australia or Arica, but an appendage or a subcontinet o the world's greatest landmass, Euarsia (Europe and Asia).
What is a large landmass that is part of a continent but is geographically separate from it?
An example of a large landmass that is part of a continent but is geographically separate from it is a peninsula. Peninsulas are connected to the mainland by an isthmus and are surrounded by water on three sides. Examples include the Iberian Peninsula in Europe and the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia.
What is the wegener's name for one large landmass?
The Wegener's name for one large landmass is "Pangaea."
What is wegeners name for for one large landmass?
Pangea is the name of the large landmass
What is a large landmass?
yes.
Island that was once part of a large landmass?
Australia was once part of a large landmass. That large landmass was called Gondwanaland. Australia broke apart from Gondwanaland over 65 million years ago.
What is the two continents that makes up a single large landmass?
Eurasia is the single large landmass made up of the continents of Europe and Asia. These two continents are connected by the landmass in regions such as Russia, creating the combined landmass of Eurasia.
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent is a what?
A subcontinent.
What two continents are joined into one large landmass?
Europe and Asia are joined into one large landmass known as Eurasia.
Large scale folding of the earths crust may be caused by what?
the collision of sub-crustal plates :)
