continental breakup
1Continental Express Flight 2574 — Accident summary Date September 11, 1991 Type Maintenance error Site …
2Continental Airlines Flight 1404 — Runway overrun summary Date December 20, 2008 (2008 12 20 …
3Continental fragment — Continental crustal fragments, partially synonymous with microcontinents, are fragments of continents thought to have been broken off from the main continental mass forming distinct islands, possibly several hundred kilometers from their place of …
4Continental Express — For the 1939 film, see The Silent Battle. Continental Express IATA ICAO Cal …
5Continental Micronesia — For the merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, see Continental United Airlines Merger. Continental Micronesia IATA CS CO ICAO …
6Continental Hotel Belgrade — Hotel Continental Beograd Hotel Continental, when it was still part of the InterContinental chain. Location Novi Beograd, Serbia Address Vladimira Popovića 10 …
7continental drift — Geol. the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates. Cf. plate tectonics. [1925 30] * * * Large scale movements of continents over the course of geologic time. The first complete theory of continental drift was… …
8Large igneous province — Only a few of the largest Large Igneous Provinces are indicated (by the dark purple areas) on this geological map, which depicts crustal geologic provinces as seen in seismic refraction data. A Large Igneous Province (LIP) is an extremely large… …
9Passive margin — A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental crust which is not an active plate margin. It is constructed by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional crust. Continental rifting creates new ocean basins …
10North America — North American. the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 ft. (6187 m); lowest, Death Valley, 276 ft. (84 m) below sea level. 400,000,000 including… …
