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单词 land bridge
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land bridge

noun
A connection between two land masses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea, as across the Bering Strait and the English Channel.Catastrophic breaching of the hypothetical land bridge allowed salt water from the Mediterranean to pour into the Black Sea....
  • Between about 8000 BC and 6000 BC rising sea levels severed the land bridge between Britain and the Continent.
  • This land bridge allowed primitive mammals to colonize South America from the North.
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