This coastal land, now below the surface of the ocean, were home to populations of plants and animals, and in the normal course of their lives they came to be distributed over wide areas, some of which, when the waters rose again, were bodies of land that are separated by water today.
(This coastal land; were; home; L:now below the surface of the ocean) (bodies of land; are separated; by water; T:today) (they; came; T:in the normal course of their lives) (they; to be distributed; L:over wide areas) (the waters; rose; T:again) (some of which; were; bodies of land that are separated by water today; T:when the waters rose again)
This coastal land bodies of land they they the waters some of which
were are separated came to be distributed rose were
home L:now below the surface of the ocean
by water T:today
T:in the normal course of their lives
L:over wide areas
T:again
bodies of land that are separated by water today T:when the waters rose again