Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres of»

Every drill hole revealed layer upon layer of high grade black coal — that is EVERY hole over an area of thousands of hectares and hundreds of metres of depth.

Figure 1: One reconstruction of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet changed from the LGM (left) to present (right), showing up to hundreds of metres of ice thinning.

On the freeway it doesn't disappoint with its handy knack of reeling in hundreds of metres of tarmac in a sudden rush.

Hundreds of metres of rock above us protect the detectors from atmospheric particles that could mimic such a strike.

The fungal network (mycelium) also provides bacteria with an excellent infrastructure: there may be hundreds of metres of fungal hyphae winding through just one gram of soil.

«We made several cross-sections of hundreds of metres of basin sediments and we determined the exact positions of ash beds contained in these marine sediments,» explained Björn Baresel, first author of the study.

Not exact matches

Therefore, it was only after nearly an hour that the controllers realised that Philae had bounced hundreds of metres from the landing area.

A day earlier, two men had been attacked by sharks in separate incidents just hundreds of metres and a few hours apart while surfing at breaks a stone's throw up the coast from where heats were being held for the Margaret River Pro.

The patented Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment (FAST) process is available in Individual unit capacities of hundreds of cubic metres a day, which can be multiplied by the use of interconnected multiple units.

After a visit to the cheetahs, you can walk a few hundred metres down the road to Flagstone winery and celebrate a life - changing interaction with a glass of delicious wine,» Bruce said.

I «m only joking but, reading the comments it seems to me that many fans are so captivated by the word «pace «they expect even the goalkeeper to split the hundred metres in under eleven seconds with a bag of coal on his back.

The peer - reviewed paper, from US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, looked at sales of 7,500 houses at a variety of distances from wind farms, running from a few hundred metres to 15 km.

Ronaldo unveiled the 3.40 - metre - high bronze effigy of himself in December 2014 on the Funchal seafront, a few hundred metres from his own self - financed museum

A weapon that fires a beam hundreds of metres to induce unbearable pain is ready to be unleashed on the world — what should be done with it?

In fact, as far back as the 1970s scientists found layers of salt several hundred metres thick on the seabed.

Large fish like tuna have been tracked before, but only with tags that communicate with Argos environmental monitoring satellites, which are accurate to a couple of hundred metres at best.

For this purpose, a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) is used, which scans its surroundings with a laser beam within a radius of several hundred metres.

Q9 Which upper - case letter, when placed underneath a small circle, represents a distance of one hundred - thousandth of one hundred - thousandth of a metre?

Volumes range from a few hundred cubic metres to more than a thousand cubic kilometres, and the larger ones can travel for hundreds of kilometres although none on that scale have occurred for several hundred thousand years.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

For more than three billion years the mats captured and precipitated sediments, building reefs over a hundred metres high and hundreds of kilometres long, and changing in composition and complexity as new forms of life appeared.

SEVEN hundred metres below the mountainous terrain of Soudan, Minnesota, lurks part of one of the most important experiments in particle physics.

The sea is set to rise a metre or more by the end of this century, swamping much vital intrastructure and displacing hundreds of millions of people (New Scientist, 1 July 2009, p 28).

But it creates a column of glowing gas tens of kilometres long and hundreds of metres wide.

Over time, the moon should have built up an ethane ocean hundreds of metres deep.

• The kinetic energy of an iron asteroid 500 metres across is about a hundred - thousandth the energy Earth receives from...

Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1 centimetre wide.

Then they will load the trap into a van and drive it a few hundred metres to the site of a neighbouring experiment, known as ISOLDE, that produces rare, radioactive atomic nuclei that decay too quickly to be transported anywhere themselves.

In Washington DC, several hundred people — a mix of NASA employees, staffers from the US Congress and parents with children — gathered in the atrium of the Newseum to watch a live feed of the impact on a 10 - metre - wide screen.

Armed, ready and completely fearless, the sentry has senses keen enough to spot an intruder hundreds of metres away, even at night.

Or is it the much more frequent impacts of smaller fragments a hundred metres or so across, which could devastate a city?

«Our results suggest that separation distances of several hundred metres, proposed by some European countries, is unnecessarily large but separation by 40 metres is not sufficient,» says Tyson.

To make a case for the channels, Osborne's team excavated snail fossils buried by half a metre of sand from a channel in Libya and compared their chemical makeup to rocks from volcanoes hundreds of kilometres away.

Greg Holland of the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have arrived at a different theory after collecting samples of the noble gas krypton from several hundred metres beneath New Mexico.

In 2015, James Head at Brown University and Michael Carr at the US Geological Survey estimated that the equivalent of a global ocean a few hundred metres deep was needed to explain all the geological features that look like they were formed by water.

Still, at only a few hundred metres down, where pressure reaches a few tens of atmospheres, a whole host of other problems kick in.

Standard grenade launchers can fire it at targets hundreds of metres away, marking vehicles and people over a wide radius from the point of impact.

He also saw beach - like landscapes, hundreds of metres above the present - day waters of the Pacific.

This model does not, however, explain one of the most puzzling features of this rapid deglaciation; namely the global formation of hundreds of metres thick deposits known as «cap carbonates», in warm waters after Snowball Earth events.

«Over a period of a million years, which is our standard unit of measurement, the movement of the mantle can cause the surface to move up and down by hundreds of metres.»

For starters, we are talking about working at depths of kilometres, rather than hundreds of metres, usual for water.

Co-located primarily in South Africa and Western Australia, the SKA will be a collection of hundreds of thousands of radio antennas with a combined collecting area equivalent to approximately one million square metres, or one square kilometre.

Given that the seismic signature of this material is essentially the same as crustal igneous rocks, there is no way of telling - other than to drill and sample everything between the seabed and the top few hundred metres of unadulterated mantle.

The geologists say that the ancient canyon — hundreds of metres deep in places — effectively rules out a popular model used to explain how the massive and picturesque gorges of the Himalaya became so steep, so fast.

A good starting point to improve speed is 3 × 3 minute rounds of relaxed shadow boxing, 3 × 3 minute rounds of punching a floor to ceiling ball or you can try a paper target hanging head height from the ceiling (The idea is not to hit the paper but simply make it move with the air generated by fast punches), 3 fast one hundred metre sprints.

Supply chain was also very important — we used hundreds of metres at Gascoigne, with the three compartment trunking in every single room apart from the kitchen and main hall.

LEDs handle dipped - beam lighting while laser units and LEDs combined provide high - beam illumination, generating a spread of light that extends several hundred metres in front of the car.

In spite of the tyre pressures, the car's traction was better than expected, thanks to the Haldex all - wheel - drive system, which reacted fairly promptly in the deep sand encountered (over sections of hundreds of metres at a time).

As an everyday ownership proposition you're never realistically going to be flicking through the driving modes to best suit the next few hundred metres of road in front of you.

The mouth of the river is only a hundred metres from here.