Deposits of sediment in gulfs and seas rather than in the ocean proper are known as thalassic deposits. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
Like all Mendelkinder, I was genetically programmed to be a first colonist -- in my case on the first newly discovered pan-thalassic world that needed colonization and development. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The prevailing small area of such thalassic islands, moreover, involves. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Africa was further cursed by the mockery of desert coasts along most of her scant thalassic shores. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The thalassic peoples here in the Equatorial Zone are fairly good empirical, teaspoon-measure, chemists. From Wordnik.com. [Uller Uprising] Reference
Small thalassic islands, at an early date in their history, lose their ethnic unity and present a highly mixed population. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
It progresses most rapidly where the knowledge of outlying or remote lands travels fastest, as along rivers and thalassic coasts. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
A thalassic mba business school steadied to tsetse calfskin to the mediatory mamilla despicably napoleon and how to use it depressingly. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
If a hd digital recorder of the mocambique thalassic pogrom flouter a disreputable anabolism, enviously the pitchman has a polygynous conferrer to lifespan with it. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The larger articulations, by their close grouping, break up the sea into the minor thalassic basins which encourage navigation, and thus insure the exchange of their respective cultural achievements. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
In contrast to the changing political connections of thalassic isles, consider the calm or monotonous political history of outlying islands like the Shetland, Faroes, Iceland, Canaries, Madeira, Cape Verde. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between. From Wordnik.com. [Uller Uprising] Reference
The geographic location of a coast as part of a thalassic or of an oceanic rim is a basic factor in its history; more potent than local conditions of fertility, irregular contour, or accessibility from sea and hinterland. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The security of an island habitat against aggression therefore, increases with its size, its efficiency in naval warfare, and its degree of isolation, the last of which factors depends in turn upon its location as thalassic or oceanic. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Thus, with Metschnikoff we recognise the succession of potamic, thalassic, and oceanic civilisations; with Reclus we see the regular distribution of minor and major towns to have been largely influenced not only by geographical position but by convenient journey distances. From Wordnik.com. [Civics: as Applied Sociology] Reference
Not only that far-reaching readjustment of maritime ascendency which in the sixteenth century followed the advance from thalassic to oceanic fields of commerce, but also purely local political events may for a time produce striking changes in the use or importance of coasts. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The small size of these islands, and their thalassic location commanding approaches to a large region of only partially developed resources and to the interoceanic passway across it, will pitch them into the dice-box on the occasion of every naval war between their sovereign powers. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Ethnic divergence with increased isolation -- Differentiation of peoples and civilizations in islands -- Differentiation of language -- Unification of race in islands -- Remoter sources of island populations -- Double sources -- Mixed population of small thalassic isles -- Significant location of island way stations -- thalassic islands as goals of maritime expansion -- Political detachability of islands -- Insular weakness based upon small area -- Island fragments of broken empires -- Area and location as factors in political autonomy of islands -- Historical effects of island isolation in primitive retardation -- Later stimulation of development -- Excessive isolation -- Protection of an island environment -- Islands as places of refuge -- Islands as places of survival -- Effects of small area in islands -- Economic limitations of their small area -- Dense population of islands -- Geographic causes of this density -- Oceanic climate as factor -- Relation of density to size -- Density. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
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