Sentences with phrase «as desert covered»

These areas generate 100 times as much dust as desert covered with vegetation.

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Cairns's choice of title, and the cover painting of St. Isaac the Syrian (a seventh - century Desert Father whose works are included in the original Philokalia), reflects his immersion in these texts and his conversion, but much more is going on as well.
In furtherance to my above digressions, Kroenke has been using Le Prof technical and tactical management know how to cover himself from his lack his not financially investment heavily in the club as Le Prof has consistently delivered Champions League football to Arsenal for 19 consecutive seasons but last season when his technical and tactical nouns to get another CL spot for Arsenal deserted him.
New England shocked Arizona narrowly winning in the desert Sunday night but easily covering the spread as 9.5 point dogs.
Then last year he claimed that, as a result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, «300,000 square kilometres of former desert are now covered with trees ``.
Last year was a record one for dust production in the United States, when sparse and badly timed desert rains produced the lowest vegetation cover on record and 5 to 20 times as much dust as usual from the Colorado Plateau into the mountains.
Desert lands cover about a quarter of Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people and yet they are commonly portrayed as extreme places with marginalized communities.
Jack said: «We know that as recently as 6,000 years ago, what is now the vast, dusty and uninhabited Saharan desert was covered in lush grassland.
However, the study showed, experts were better at identifying the specific land - cover types such as forest, farmland, grassland, or desert.
Biosphere 2 (Earth is Biosphere 1, say the Biospherians), covering more than three acres of desert and 10 stories high, was hyped as the most ambitious closed ecosystem in history.
Temperature and other climate changes in open expanses, such as the Amazon basin or Sahara Desert, will cover broader swaths of land than steep peaks, meaning that «large geographic displacements are required to change temperature appreciably,» wrote the researchers.
The plot is sometimes a little uneven but the style and setting of the film wins through as Hanna passes through snow covered tundra, Moroccan deserts and gritty European ports and cities.
These places are large maps made up of several smaller interconnected areas, and cover a variety of terrain types such as snowy mountains, volcanoes, deserts, and jungles.
«Birth» (2004) Savides» unparalleled mastery of the camera is evident from the very first frames of Jonathan Glazer's «Birth,» as we wordlessly glide behind a man jogging through a deserted, snow - covered Central Park.
As you can see they have replaced the desert's hot dunes with snow covered surfaces, which...
With its roads and freeways as the foundation of driving adventures encompassing sunny surf - side beaches, rugged snow - covered mountains, starkly beautiful deserts and a wide variety of other destinations, Kia Motors America (KMA) chose Los Angeles for the North American debut of the all - new 2016 Sorento CUV.
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With its roads and freeways as the foundation of driving adventures encompassing sunny surf - side beaches, rugged snow - covered mountains, starkly beautiful deserts and...
Residing beneath the deserts of East Africa (primarily the southern portion of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia) each colony's territory can cover an area as large as six...
Residing beneath the deserts of East Africa (primarily the southern portion of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia) each colony's territory can cover an area as large as six football fields.
Indeed, while Ms McIntosh's company have self - publishing and eBook publishing properly covered, their view is that their market will never desert them, because of the respect in which they are held as selectors and editors of the very best fiction.
Affectionately known as the «Coca - Cola Route» due to its popularity, Marangu covers forests, moorlands, and «the Saddle» (a high - altitude desert), on its way to Kibo Hut.
One of the world's driest deserts, the Kara Kum Desert, covers around 80 percent of this country and you will see cities such as Merv and the capital Ashgabat looming from the sand as you journey into the country.
Sand dunes and hills • Shoot interesting rock sculptures • Trees in a field • Snow - capped mountains • Creeks or brooks • Covered bridges • Freeway rush - hour traffic • Fields of flowers • A unique - looking plant, such as a desert cactus • Look for long, winding roads.
The island itself is pretty much as you would imagine a deserted tropical island: a flat and circular, covered with palm trees and flowering bougainvillea, surrounded by white beaches.
As covered earlier, the development team plans to release the new desert map for all players next month.
As we encounter wild animals of Blaine County's RDR - like desert, feel thankful for the Max Payne 3 - style cover system in the heat of a getaway, or take a moment to appreciate the improved facial animations that (though not using MotionScan) clearly owe themselves to the detail of LA Noire, it really feels like this is the game that everything has been leading up to.
You could spend hours just in the snow covered mountains and believe you were there, but then remember that the lonely deserts, and wide open, green fields are just as glorious.
Each archipelago have different types of environments, such as a desert island or a snow covered island, but as I stated, many of the features on these islands will be the same.
Orly Genger's silkscreened prints, Struggle, Squat, and Sprint (all from 2017) depict intricate piles of sinewy action - figure appendages and read as cartoonish gestures of physical power, while Paula Wilson's In the Desert: Mooning (2016), a faux - rug mounted on wood and covered with vibrant imagery, irreverently explores themes of gender, race, and sexuality.
His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»
I would add that this resort was so unbelievably green (as in grass - covered, not eco-friendly) that we could pick it out from the air as we left, flying over the moonscape of the desert around Vegas.
These large CO2 deserts cover the northern ice sheets with dust, as is recorded in the ice core data, and the ice sheet albedo is lowered sufficiently so that the next insolation maxima can melt the ice sheets.
The skyline is covered in a haze due to atmospheric dust blown in from deserts and mass crop burning in neighbouring states, as well as smoke from open fires lit by millions like Kunti to keep warm or to cook food.
Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.
As there is not enough water in areas between desert and grassland — where fairy circles occur — for plants to form a continuous cover, individual plants organize themselves in this beehive pattern in order to maximize the little water that they receive.
Deserts will expand, drought will spread, water supplies will evaporate away, rising seas will flood coastal areas and cover island nations, widespread famine will ensue as farms dry up, and heat waves and tropical diseases will threaten out health.
In addition, there is a 45 - metre -(147.6 - foot --RRB- thick layer of manganese ore in the Kalahari Desert with an age corresponding to the end of the 2.4 billion - year «Snowball Earth» period; its deposition is thought to have been caused by rapid and massive changes in global climate as the worldwide covering of ice melted.
I'm quite challenged with any gardening at the moment as I'm in the Arizona desert in an attached single - family home (aka duplex) with three exposures: an east - facing courtyard to which the water has been turned off so plan on container gardening, a south side of the house with some very boring desert plants and a west - facing patio (southwest corner of house) with no covering that gets overheard sun all day.
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