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land bridge

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land bridge [′land ‚brij]
(geography)
A strip of land linking two landmasses, often subject to temporary submergence, but permitting intermittent migration of organisms.


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A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower" traces the history of Japan from its root in prehistory and the first people to set foot on the land across a land bridge from China to its time as a Superpower that challenged the world a little more than 50 years ago.
Sonar and video surveys of a long-flooded land bridge between Michigan and Ontario, Canada, reveal evidence of man-made structures that may have been used by hunters when water levels in the Great Lakes were much lower than they are today, researchers claim.
The British mammoths headed south and east towards slightly warmer climes, crossing a land bridge to continental Europe when sea levels were up to 100 metres (325 feet) below what they are now.
 
 
 
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