Sentences with phrase «along the ridges at»

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In addition to the brine dumped in at the northern end, run - off from Israeli fish farms and untreated sewage from Jewish settlements along the ridge of the Jordan Valley and from the Arab community of Jericho make their way into the river bed from the west.

It captures an area from Hallett Cove, across to Clarendon, and then roughly south then south - west along the ridge of the foothills until it meets the coast at Sellicks Beach.

Ahead of us lies a 5K along the ridge line at almost 12,000 feet of elevation.

Three basic forces are believed to drive oceanic plate movement: plates are «pushed» away from mid-ocean ridges as new sea floor forms; plates are «pulled» as the oldest parts of the plate dive back into the earth at subduction zones; and convection within the asthenosphere helps ferry the plates along.

The plume's more southern location, Toomey said, adds fuel to his group's findings, at three different sites along the globe encircling mid-ocean ridge (where 85 percent of Earth's volcanic activity occurs), that Earth's internal convection doesn't always adhere to modeling efforts and raises new questions about how ocean plates at Earth's surface — the lithosphere — interact with the hotter, more fluid asthenosphere that sits atop the mantle.

Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his team discovered the new organisms when they analysed DNA extracted from underwater sediment near Loki's Castle, a region of hydrothermal vents along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14447).

In a field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.

There's plenty of suspension travel from the MacPherson struts in front and the control arms at the rear, and body control is pretty good, even on the narrow, winding roads to the top of the ridge along the San Francisco Peninsula where the redwoods are.

They are plastic, and feature an odd black ridge running along the middle that's at odds with the more seamless, pristine look most tablet manufacturers adopt.

Along the way, relief between the canyon floor and the top of coral ridges doubles from that found at the mooring pin.

Turtle Ridge — Medium dive (maximum 70ft) Easily navigated along coral ridges running from 30ft to sheer drop at 65ft.

Located along a ridge line overlooking the beach at Oneloa Bay, the first row of the Ridge Villas is uniquely positioned to take in panoramic ocean views that stretch from Hawea Point to Honolua Bay.

It is worth getting in the car and going to Portland for some rock scrambling and also into the Purbeck Hills there is a great walk along the hill ridge from Corfe Castle to Old Harry Rocks you can eat at the Pig on the Beach (quite expensive) or go to the Bankes Arms pub and then return to your car in Corfe Castle by bus.

You can park at this intersection, and follow the trail west along a ridge until you see another trail intersect to the south to take.

At the halfway point, we stop to take on water, before climbing along an exposed ridge to Clogwyn Station.

At 0:17, there's a large creature stomping along the top of a ridge.

With the headset on, as you inch your way along the knife - edge ridge leading to the Hillary Step, an 8,000 ft drop on one side and 12,000 ft on the other, and despite internally screaming at your brain that you're walking on your carpet, the sense of danger is palpable.

Just before the ridge top that day we met a striking Tamang girl along the trail who welcomed us to stay at her family's teahouse overlooking the slopes where the red panda was said to reside.

We parked our car at South Latitude 33.4197 °, East Longitude 138.7406 °, which seemed likely to be about where Mayor Mattey had his flat tyre, and walked one and a half kilometres along the road toward the row of wind turbines on the Brown Hill Range, finishing at Latitude 33.4205 °, Longitude 138.7249 °, at a point on the ridge on the line of the turbines.

ABC online news reported (2007/11/14) that this windfarm was to be built on 14 properties along a ridge - line between Goulburn and Crookwell; the properties are at Kialla, Bannister, Pomeroy and Gurrundah.

For a long time people thought that ocean pH was regulated ultimately by reactions between deep seawater and sediments, but as Walt Allensworth February 5, 2015 at 3:08 pm, says there are so many black, and clear, vents along the midocean ridges spewing acidic water, that these probably maintain ocean pH instead.

Vast ranges of volcanoes hidden under the oceans are presumed by scientists to be the gentle giants of the planet, oozing lava at slow, steady rates along mid-ocean ridges.

Highlights include 76 acres below Shaupeneak Ridge in Esopus (Ulster County), 140 acres of farmland, meadows and wooded ridges along a scenic byway in Clermont (Columbia County), and 37 acres that buffer vital wildlife habitats at Vosburgh Swamp in Coxsackie (Greene County).

The images show that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed by an extensive set of pyroclastic deposits, raising important questions regarding the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles on such ridges and demonstrating that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

Atmospheric pressure at sea level rises and falls to some degree as horizontal pressure ridges sweep along but the average pressure remains the same at 1 bar.

The wind can't always be at your back.In fact, around lunch Carson and Eric encountered several wind mills along a ridge overlooking a state correctional facility.