Sentences with phrase «at an elevation as»

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

These zip line courses are set up with multiple platforms in the tree canopy, many at an elevation as high as 85 feet.

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As the US military's attention shifts back to great - power competition, particular focus is being paid to the potential for conflict in the extreme conditions found at northern latitudes and higher elevations.

The elevation comes at a crucial time in the Mueller probe, as Trump's team is negotiating the terms under which the president himself may be interviewed.

Few Facebook critics are as credible as Roger McNamee, the managing partner at Elevation Partners.

Prior to HP Palm, she worked as a founding Senior Associate at Elevation Partners, a $ 1.8 billion media and entertainment private equity firm, where she fell in love with the consumer Internet and mobile space.

Christian asceticism is unique because, while it acknowledges the body and soul as good, it realises that they must be disciplined and put at the service of one another, in order that the full person will be made capable of elevation to glory.

For while the sacred may be seen as that which gives meaning and value to the profane sphere, at the same time it may by its separateness and elevation tend to empty the profane sphere of significance and worth.

It is not that the theses of traditional theology regarding Adam's elevation to grace, his Paradise, his knowledge and so on, are to be unmasked and diagnosed as at the most anthropomorphisms or dreams of a golden age in which mankind expressed in vivid form a longed - for future rather than a past that had once existed and was lost?

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

Didn't come out as thick as yours, but I live at a very high elevation so I'm assuming that's why.

I think it is because I am at the same elevation as Elana is in Boulder, CO..

Because air pressure decreases as the elevation increases, many foods respond differently at high altitudes — and not just baked goods, but beans, stews, fried foods, pasta, etc..

There are scrub oak and Jeffrey pine at the lower elevations, the latter smelling sweet and faintly of vanilla as they heat up in the bright sunlight.

The Laura Nordic venue features dedicated courses and stadiums for both cross-country and biathlon, as well as its own satellite Endurance Village, so Nordic athletes can live at the same elevation at which they'll compete.

Where a low - tide elevation is situated wholly or partly at a distance not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, the low - water line on that elevation may be used as the baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea.

Prior to her elevation to the commissioner's job, Ritter served three years as an associate commissioner at OMRDD, two years as executive deputy director in DOH's Office of Public Health and 10 years in senior leadership positions in the state comptroller's office.

«I don't remember as I always say that under NPP for eight years, Ghana was actually a paradise but look around you today, look at our interventions in transportation, look at our transformation in the sea ports of Ghana, look at the transformation in our road network, look at the elevations in all the key medical facilities we have across the country, look at the new ones coming up, look at the housing infrastructure...» she pointed out in response to claims by the NPP that the Mahama administration has been a disaster and made Ghanaians poorer.

The Chief Rabbi has hit out at Shami Chakrabarti's elevation to the House of Lords as a Labour peer.

The highest elevation in the county is a U.S. Geological Survey benchmark known as «Bailey» at approximately 299 m (980 feet) above sea level in Mountain Lakes Park near the Connecticut state line.

As part of our ongoing «Congressional Battleground» series here at CapTon, I sat down earlier today with Rep. Scott Murphy, the incumbent Democrat in NY - 20 who is trying to hold onto the seat he won in a special election following the elevation of Kirsten Gillibrand to the US Senate by Gov. David Paterson last January.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

In western Tibet, annual snowfall totals have risen steadily since the 1990s, especially at higher elevations, as strengthening westerly winds bring more precipitation.

Upper elevations have not been affected nearly as much, but most states don't have that much area at 7,000 - plus feet.

While the altimeter data also showed that the liquid in some of the canyons around Ligeia Mare is at sea level — the same altitude as the liquid in the sea itself — in others it sits tens to hundreds of feet (tens of meters) higher in elevation.

The oldest sites tended to be those at higher elevations, probably because these were the first to become usable as the Pleistocene icecap retreated.

They indeed found that electroacupuncture delivered at St36 minutes after chronic painful cold exposure was as effective in preventing elevation of stress hormones as it was with pretreatment with acupuncture.

As a result, at higher elevations, the microbes and animals in the soil are becoming more diverse, with unknown consequences for the ecosystem.

«In these maps, you can see that there's elevation in the bed topography at the same location as the seismic events,» Lough says.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the climate warms, towards cooler habitats at higher elevations and latitudes.

As part of the study, a common garden containing Tamarix from various elevations and latitudes was cultivated at the University of Arizona Mesa Farm in Yuma.

The Col du Dôme mission, in the Alps's Mont Blanc massif at an elevation of 4,300 meters, marks the beginning of an ambitious project to collect ice cores from other parts of the world as well.

Winds at higher elevations, generally, are stronger and more consistent, even in wind - rich states such as Iowa and Texas.

More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

The oldest sites tended to be those at higher elevations, probably because these were the first to become usable as the Pleistocene...

This false colour image was put together by geologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, combining data gathered by a remote sensing instrument known as TIMS, Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner, with a digital elevation model.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

Over the past 100 years, small mammals in Yosemite, California, show range contraction at high elevations and range expansion lower down, as well as rearranged communities.

As their habitats heat up, pikas living at low elevations have one major shot at avoiding extinction: migrating to cooler, higher parts of the mountain.

Seems the bears snack on the fruits that are found at the foot of the mountains in spring and then make the climb to higher elevations to enjoy young leaves and buds and flowers, particularly as the season progresses.

Mission scientists speculate that perhaps methane in the atmosphere on Pluto behaves like water in the air on Earth, building up on the ground as frost at the highest (and coldest) elevations.

Priests burned offerings at the top of the multilevel platforms, as each layer of society gazed up from its proper elevation.

Like many mountain ecosystems, Niwot Ridge serves as an important «water tower,» regulating downhill water flow as snowmelt replenishes lakes and streams at lower elevations.

In western states where snowpack is critical, we found decreases in the percent of winter precipitation falling as snow at elevations between sea level and 5,000 feet.

At higher elevations in Montana and Idaho, the shift was equally strong, with 75 and 78 percent of stations reporting a decrease in the percentage of precipitation falling as snow at 5,000 to 8,000 feeAt higher elevations in Montana and Idaho, the shift was equally strong, with 75 and 78 percent of stations reporting a decrease in the percentage of precipitation falling as snow at 5,000 to 8,000 feeat 5,000 to 8,000 feet.

Snowpack accumulated at high elevations tends to be more stable and persist longer than at low elevations, largely as a result of colder temperatures at high elevations.

• At tree line, butterfly diversity is actually going up, as lower - elevation species react to the warming climate by moving upslope to higher, cooler elevations.

As we left the shrubby foothills, where one could break a sweat standing still at 9 a.m., the temperature dropped 20 degrees, shadows painted the pavement, and giant sequoia appeared — the titans of the Sierra Nevada.Telling details that help us appreciate the environment changes as you go up in elevatioAs we left the shrubby foothills, where one could break a sweat standing still at 9 a.m., the temperature dropped 20 degrees, shadows painted the pavement, and giant sequoia appeared — the titans of the Sierra Nevada.Telling details that help us appreciate the environment changes as you go up in elevatioas you go up in elevation.