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海面: sea level
海面 kaimen
sea level; (surface of) sea
Nature & weather
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Example sentences
水が氷になって海面が低かったので、日本は、大陸と陸続きになったところもあったと考えられています。
Water was locked up as ice and the sea level was low, so it is thought that in places Japan was joined to the continent by land.
From the lesson 縄文時代の前の時代
Sea levels rose, and Japan gradually became separated from the continent.
From the lesson 気候と自然
約六千年前は、今より気温が高くて、海面も高かったと考えられています。
It is thought that about 6,000 years ago the temperature was higher than today and the sea level was higher too.
From the lesson 気候と自然
From the lesson 縄文時代の六つの時期