Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Land Bridge

Floor of a shallow sea between continents that is exposed when sea levels fall, typically during periods of glacial maxima, e.g. Beringia, Sahul shelf and Sunda shelf; these have provided dispersal routes for the great faunal exchanges of the past.

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Central American land bridge (... drift; no bridge existed during much of ...)
continental bridge hypothesis (Proposal that continents used to span the areas where oceans exist today, and formed bridges ...)
bridge (1. any spanning or transitional structure, e.g. bridge of the nose. 2 see land bridge.)
filter bridge (... others, usually a land bridge, mountain pass, or ice- ...)
Beringia (... this land bridge was about 1200 miles wide. Aka Bering land bridge.)