Sentences with phrase «by hundreds of metres»

«Over a period of a million years, which is our standard unit of measurement, the movement of the mantle can cause the surface to move up and down by hundreds of metres.»

Not exact matches

A day earlier, two men had been attacked by sharks in separate incidents just hundreds of metres and a few hours apart while surfing at breaks a stone's throw up the coast from where heats were being held for the Margaret River Pro.

The patented Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment (FAST) process is available in Individual unit capacities of hundreds of cubic metres a day, which can be multiplied by the use of interconnected multiple units.

I «m only joking but, reading the comments it seems to me that many fans are so captivated by the word «pace «they expect even the goalkeeper to split the hundred metres in under eleven seconds with a bag of coal on his back.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

The sea is set to rise a metre or more by the end of this century, swamping much vital intrastructure and displacing hundreds of millions of people (New Scientist, 1 July 2009, p 28).

«Our results suggest that separation distances of several hundred metres, proposed by some European countries, is unnecessarily large but separation by 40 metres is not sufficient,» says Tyson.

To make a case for the channels, Osborne's team excavated snail fossils buried by half a metre of sand from a channel in Libya and compared their chemical makeup to rocks from volcanoes hundreds of kilometres away.

In 2015, James Head at Brown University and Michael Carr at the US Geological Survey estimated that the equivalent of a global ocean a few hundred metres deep was needed to explain all the geological features that look like they were formed by water.

A good starting point to improve speed is 3 × 3 minute rounds of relaxed shadow boxing, 3 × 3 minute rounds of punching a floor to ceiling ball or you can try a paper target hanging head height from the ceiling (The idea is not to hit the paper but simply make it move with the air generated by fast punches), 3 fast one hundred metre sprints.

Koh Rok is actually made up of twin islands by the name Koh Rok Nai and Koh Rok Nok, with a distance of about a couple of hundred metres between them.

Standing at an altitude of three hundred metres and reached by a funicular railway from the spa town of Montecatini Terme, the medieval town of Montecatini Alto dominates the hill from which it takes its name, treating visitors to spectacular panoramic views of the surrounding Tuscany countryside.

Rockfaces are covered by rainforest, with crystal clear waterfalls tumbling down them hundreds of metres.

This series of 1 - in - 18 slopes allow the Devil's Nose train to ascend and descend eight - hundred metres by see - sawing backwards and forwards on the rock face.

A series of long, curving switchbacks were carved directly into the face of the rock, allowing the train to gradually ascend or descend the Devil's Nose for more than eight hundred metres by slowly shunting backward and forward to negotiate the steep switchbacks.

If you are sailing by a private vessel to Port Hardy the large marina provides excellent moorage, offering eleven hundred and fifty metres of floats creating a hundred and ninety five slips.

The room is one of two bedrooms in the building that share a ten metre by four metre communal area, with stereo system and CDs, hundreds of books and original artworks.

Santa Susanna's town centre is just two hundred metres away, where a variety of bars, restaurants and shops are located, and in a few minutes by public transportation it is also possible to reach the wonderful city of Barcelona.

Mariner 9, a 12 - metre - long panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years in the future, by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson.

In partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts, NEoN is pleased to kick off its festival season by presenting Mariner 9, a 12 - metre - long panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years in the future, by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson.

Also exhibited is 17m, an installation comprised of a 17 - metre - long clothing rail on which hang more than two hundred black suits punctured throughout by a gaping star.

Artworks made especially for this exhibition include Yukuwa (Feather string yam vine) by Frances Djulibing and one hundred metres of hand - made string by artists from Yirrkala.

Tom Na H - iu (2006), a place where transmigrate souls were believed to rest in ancient Celtic religion, is a large glass monolith five metres high, lit from within by hundreds of LED lights and connected to Super Kamiokande, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at The University of Tokyo.

These are akin to enormous glaciers: hundreds of metres thick, floating on the sea, formed mostly by precipitation, steadily flowing out to sea and breaking up into bergs.

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

In particular a strip of land down the eastern side of Dunwich, in places a hundred metres wide, was eroded by the sea.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

If the 1.441 mm depth had warmed by 0.700 C same as the ocean - air interface then oceans would gain no heat, but the massive colder oceans below will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.697 C and only when the entire ocean has warmed by 0.700 C in a few thousand years will it let that 1.441 mm depth warm the final 0.003 C and stop heat gain with 4,100 ZettaJoules of heat having been added to the oceans, enough to melt 13,666,666 cubic kilometres of ice.

If the strongest vibrations from wind turbines are, at best, detectable at a distance of 11 km then they must be quite undetectable by human senses at distances of hundreds of metres or more from the turbines.

Well, we managed to get our hands on the Lenovo A6000 after a goodish struggle (it was getting sold out faster than Usain Bolt doing the metres hundred and media review units seemed hard to come by), and well, while we work on our review, we have to admit that our initial impressions of the device are overwhelmingly positive.

The notable exception were the study participants in Beit - Hanoun City, where half of the children and the majority of the mothers had poor mental health, and only one - sixth of the children were resilient; this may be explained by the particularly high conflict / confrontation level in this town, being only a few hundred metres from the Palestinian — Israeli border» (Massad, Javier Nieto, Palta, Smith, Clark, & Thabet, 2009).