Sentences with phrase «by about a kilometre»

The tremors occurred under a rise in the bedrock, which protrudes by about a kilometre but isn't tall enough to stick out of the ice.

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Of that, only about 750 square kilometres has been disturbed by mining to date.

The Granada gold mine is located near Rouyn ‐ Noranda and about 204 kilometres by road from Gowganda.

Measuring about six kilometres by one kilometre, the area features a paired high / low magnetic response and underwent eight RC holes that intersected syenite or felsic intrusive rock, the company explained.

Described as a five - by - one - kilometre gold - rich, sulphide - bearing quartz vein environment, the trend hosts a former mine that averaged about 19 g / t during intermittent operation between 1916 and 1939, producing over 60,000 ounces.

By Louise FitzRoy At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, about 50 kilometres east of Canberra, the hens are roaming freely on green biodynamic pastures and the cattle are being trained to eat weeds.

According to confidential marketing documents viewed by The Australian Financial Review, the assets to be acquired include two farms near Coominya about 60 kilometres northwest of Brisbane, Queensland, which produce about 3 million birds a year with contracts secured to Baiada until 2020.

It was built in 1910 about 18 kilometres north of Cochrane, Alberta, by Mr. and Mrs. James Andison...

There has also been «microscopic» progress in efforts to get ten per cent of new cars emitting under 100g per kilometre by 2012 - this would be the equivalent of about 250,000 cars, but in 2004 just 481 cars fit into this category.

Old assumptions about comets are faltering as results emerge from data collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005, when the probe's impactor detached from the mother ship and crashed into the comet at 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) per hour.

«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»

Based on their lengths and heights, they calculated that the roughly 5000 - kilometre - wide planet shrank by about 3 kilometres, on average.

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

It then is carried by currents to the middle of the North Atlantic, where it swims down to a depth of about a kilometre.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has about 100 cubic kilometres of frozen water at its poles, suggest measurements by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

To provide the necessary warning time, Carrington - L5 will utilize a gravitational balance point, known as L5, which would allow it to trail the Earth in its orbit around the Sun by about 150 million kilometres.

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.

Concern about a possible eruption has grown since 2010, when research cruises over the shelf by Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, both now at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, found plumes of methane as much as a kilometre wide bubbling to the surface.

The interstellar gas is blown about by shock waves from exploding stars that can propel it at thousands of kilometres per second — fast enough to cross the Earth in...

They found that the bamboo forests in which the pandas live shrank by 4.9 % between 1976 and 2001, to about 55,500 square kilometres.

The project, conducted by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and the Indonesian Geological Research and Development Centre (GRDC), has charted about 380 000 square kilometres of rugged terrain in Irian Jaya and central Kalimantan at a scale of 1:250 000 (1 centimetre to 2.5 kilometres).

Earth's storm clouds are stopped about 20 kilometres up by a layer of warm air heated by ozone, which absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays.

By PETER BOND Between late November and mid-December, astronomers in California and Puerto Rico are closely monitoring an asteroid about 5 kilometres across called 4179 Toutatis as it passes within a few million kilometres of Earth.

Charon, discovered in 1978, is by far the largest at about 1000 kilometres across.

The lower edge of the stratosphere, bounded by the tropopause, varies in altitude from about 18 kilometres at the equator to between 6 and 8 kilometres over the poles.

They found that the area of the Bolivian Andes covered by glaciers decreased from about 530 square kilometres in 1986 to only around 300 square kilometres in 2014, a reduction of 43 %.

One of the new craters, called Earhart, is about 200 kilometres across and is almost completely masked by a later impact and subsequent lava flooding.

It shows the inner cloud of dust and gas surrounding the comet's nucleus increasing by 200 kilometres (about 120 miles) in size.

These views of dwarf planet Ceres were taken on 19 February from a distance of about 46,000 kilometres (29,000 miles) by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

The Parker Probe will smash that record by getting as close as 6.1 million kilometres, about 10 times as close as Mercury to the Sun.

It was obtained by New Horizons at a range of approximately 21,100 miles (33,900 kilometres) from Pluto, about 45 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on 14 July 2015.

The discovery by the Juno spacecraft that Jupiter's gravity field is north — south asymmetric5 and the determination of its non-zero odd gravitational harmonics J3, J5, J7 and J9 demonstrates that the observed zonal cloud flow must persist to a depth of about 3,000 kilometres from the cloud tops6.

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Posts about Something's In The Air written by arianeb ESA Euronews: Mars on Earth The Rio Tinto river snakes through the Spanish countryside for 100 kilometres, a dark, blood - red stain of acid water and rusty

Like all hybrids, even though it is hooked up to a two - speed gearbox the electric motor still runs out of puff at high speed and above about 200 kilometres an hour, the i8 is being mostly propelled by that little 1.5 - litre gas engine which, turbocharged or no, has its work cut out for it.

In addition to extensive mangrove forests, low hill rises and freshwater marshes, Ream National Park is dominated by the Prek Toek Sap estuary which is fed by a network of water sources that converge at the Kbal Chhay Waterfalls some 18 kilometres north of Sihanoukville town, on the other side of National Route... Read more about Kbal Chhay Waterfalls.

Established in 1973 and named after the site of a lighthouse that has guided mariners since 1960, Cape Scott is characterized by more than 115 kilometres of scenic ocean frontage, including about 30 kilometres of spectacular remote beaches.

Cut off from the rest of Nonthaburi province by the Chao Phraya river some 20 kilometres north of central Bangkok, the island of Ko Kret is home to centuries - old temples, a great weekend market and a Mon community known for its handmade earthen clay... Read more about Ko Kret.

The narrow resort area stretches about six kilometres north to south, hemmed to the west by busy Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, the main link to Bali's airport.

This trio of historic sites linked to the slave trade have been collectively designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and is located about 25 kilometres from Banjul.

From Albany airport it is about 90 minutes by car or public bus (120 kilometres).

Mawa House is a three star accommodation that is footsteps from the Ubud Monkey Forest.The Ubud Art Market is approximately 10 minutes from the accommodation while Ngurah Rai International Airport is just about 90 minutes by car.The Nyuh Kuning city centre itself is less than half a kilometre from the accommodation.This makes it easy for guests to explore the surroundings on foot.The eight deluxe rooms offered at the Mawa House give guests a chance to blend in with the Balinese lifestyle.The design of the accommodation is in the Classic Balinese architectural style.Guests are going to see a lot of natural stone and finished teak wood in the design of the rooms.

It is 72 kilometres from Cusco which is about 2 hours away by minibus.

It is about 12 kilometres from one end of the island to the other by walking along the road.

Situated about five kilometres southwest of Patong, you get to Paradise Beach by heading south along the last stretch of Patong's Beach Road to Amari Phuket, taking a left at the fork and going past Baan Yin Dee up on the hill.

Bora Bora is an island located about 230 kilometres (143 miles) northwest of Papeete and is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef.

And whether you're already a diver or want to become one, you'll find endless options here, including the famous Great Blue Hole, a submarine sinkhole about 70 kilometres from the mainland that was made famous by none other than Jacques Cousteau, who named it among the top 10 dive sites on the planet.

If approved, the almost 1200 - kilometre - long twin pipeline would carry about 525,000 barrels of petroleum per day from Alberta to the B.C. coast for shipment by tankers.

It would save lives too, reducing the notional premature death toll by 23,000, and would burn only about 4,000 square kilometres of forest.

However, despite this, the team reckon to have perhaps isolated a «global warming» signal in the accelerated run off of the Greenland Ice Mass — but only just, because the runoff at the edges is balanced by increasing central mass — again, they focus upon recent trends — a net loss of about 22 cubic kilometres in total ice mass per year which they regard as statistically not significant — to find the «signal», and a contradiction to their ealier context of air temperature cycles.