Sentences with phrase «about a meter below»

Hlubik was inspired to investigate her site, part of a larger archaeological area known as Koobi Fora, because of reddened, bowl - shaped patches, about a meter below the surface, that were first identified in the 1970s and 1980s in a nearby part of Koobi Fora.

Not exact matches

Well below average height and generally soft - spoken, Ernie Fay was one of the first U.S. sailors to become enthusiastic about the 5.5 - meter class.

When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

If the Skirball was getting wet, the Smilow center was in even bigger trouble; its basement, housing about 10,000 mice and rats, is almost 10 meters below water level.

The Odyssey IV can do all this to about 6,000 meters down, some three and three - quarter miles below the surface which means that this machine is well suited to its main goal the study of deep sea coral.

At the same time, the unique suspended mooring system for each machine developed a fault, and instead of floating about 15 meters below the tethered snakes, the system began to sink and drag the snakes down with it.

The rariphotic occurs just below a previously defined reef zone, the mesophotic, which extends from about 40 to as deep as 150 meters (about 120 - 450 feet).

Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new ocean - life zone, the rariphotic, between 130 and 309 meters (about 400 to 1,000 feet) below the surface.

The tests indicated that the deepest layer of artifacts — between about 2.15 and 2.6 meters below the surface — ranged in age from about 53,000 to 65,000 years.

Cosmic rays can only penetrate about two to three meters below the surface, so the abundance of cosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the surface.

An air blast from the event flattened the forest in the valley below, moved 2 million cubic meters of material and killed about 200 people.

At the moment, sewage from hotels and resorts is generally pumped into deep - injection wells 90 meters (about 300 feet) below ground level, sometimes straight into undersea caves.

Lippl and his colleagues invited 20 obese men to an environmental research station about 300 meters below the summit of Zugspitze, a mountain near the Austrian border.

The researchers used a small boat to tow an array of underwater microphones, called hydrophones, about 2 meters below the surface and recorded the sounds of individual dolphins identified by their dorsal fins.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

The relief wells are drilled straight down into the sea bottom, parallel to the blown Macondo well for several thousand meters and then angled to intersect the original well bore at about 5,500 meters beneath the Gulf's surface (4,000 meters below the seafloor).

If that is successful — and everything thus far has been a big «if» — BP wants to create a more durable LMRP containment cap system by directing the oil and gas to a new free - floating riser ending about 90 meters below sea level (a flexible hose will be used to connect it to vessels on the surface).

Radioactive dating of the rocks reveals that the oldest lavas on the surface of the ridge, whose peak now lies about 800 meters below the waves, cooled about 5 million years ago, the researchers report online this month in GSA Bulletin.

Although the wind strongly affects the surface layer, its influence does not extend much below about 100 meters (325 feet) in depth.

The researchers injected this bubbly liquid into basaltic rock some 400 to 800 meters (about 1,300 to 2,600 feet) below ground.

During the flight, you can listen to a recorded commentary about the Grand Canyon and its surrounds via audio headphones.You'll land for an unforgettable champagne picnic, 3,200 feet (960 meters) below the rim.

Standing 40 meters from the ground below on the longest canopy bridge in the world, I look across the lowland landscape of jungle kicking about in the wind like a vast ocean floor of green anemones.

Cyclops, Western Australia, for example is one of the biggest and thickest reef breaks in the world, with waves measuring up to 10 metres high, but the reef below is only about 2 meters (6.6 feet) below the surface of the water.

The steering house is at about 10 meters below the surface while the propellers rest at the deepest point of 32 meters.

Shark Point and Anemone Reef are pinnacle like rock formations with Shark Point breaking the surface and Anemone Reef beginning about 5 meters below it, and both sites are sea life magnets, and shouldn't be missed!

The top of the wreck is about 5m below the surface, and the remaining parts drop away to about 30 meters, meaning that this is a fantastic dive for all levels of diver.

The Healy is 420 feet (128 meters) long and the tops of the features on the floor of the Arctic Ocean where the evidence of the eruptions has been noted are about 4,000 meters below the surface.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

Most of the WAIS rests on rock that is below sea level; if the Ross Ice Shelf broke up, the entire mass of ice could gradually disintegrate, raising sea level about 3 meters (11 feet).

«Global sea level was about 125 meters below today's sea level at the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago (Fairbanks, 1989).

Recently there have been some widespread misconceptions about heat accumulation in the oceans, particularly in the deeper layers below 700 meters.

SST is measure about 5 meters below the «surface» and makes up about 70 % of the «surface» area, but at least that «Surface» only varies about 100 meters or so.

The land «surface» is 2 meters above the «surface» and that «surface» varies from a few dozen meters below msl to about 3000 meters above msl.

There's nothing «unphysical», or even implausible, about more heat ending up below 700 meters without any net warming above.

Instead of pointing out the mechanism to get the surface effect of the sun down below 700 meters, your drone about solar cycles.

A bit down the page there are some graphs of vertical temperature profiles, and a comment saying that the temperature below about 80 meters is stable at about 23.4 °C.

The glacier goes afloat at the grounding zone where bedrock, till, and ice meet the ocean waters about 600 meter below sea level (Rignot, 1996).

This results in what's known as the cool skin layer of the ocean which is the topmost 1 millimeter being about 1C cooler than the bulk mixed layer (~ 300 meters) below it.

They also found that, consistent with my team's research, about 30 % of overall global warming has gone into the deep oceans below 700 meters due to changing wind patterns and ocean currents.

But below about 1,500 meters, the ice becomes so compressed that trapped air molecules are forced into the space between the ice crystals, forming what is known as a gas clathrate.

«Below the sea surface, historical measurements of temperature are far sparser, and the warming is more gradual, about 0.01 °C per decade at 1,000 meters.»

The basis of the Quaternary is about 500 meters below sea - level in the Amsterdam area.

At 2 meters below the surface, the water temperature is about 17C degrees.

The» #antiscientists» are talking about observations in the oceans below 700 meters.

Using new technology scientists learned that the fish population at depths below about 200 meters is far more dense than previously believed.

shows the last interglacial sea level which rises to a peak about 9 meters higher than present early in the interglacial, then over a period of thousands of years falls to a bit below modern level, then over the next few thousand years rises 9 meters above modern level again.

Out at sea, the Argo floats have a 10 - day cycle where they autonomously travel down to 2000 meters or more, then back up to the surface to tell satellites what they learned about the depths below.

The base is currently buried about 35 meters below the surface but the part of the ice sheet that covers the camp may start to melt by the end of the century if current warming trends continue, scientists warned.

If prospecting is done in, for example, Germany the average reservoir depth for a source at about 100 °C would reach just over 3000 meters below the surface, whereas a source at around 180 °C on average would require a drilling depth greater than 6000 meters.