Sentences with phrase «by land masses»

And meanwhile down south exactly the same thing happened as in the far north, although [due to the reversed situation of a central continent and surrounding seas — instead of a central ocean, surrounded by land masses] with exactly the opposite effect: the Antarctic sea ice reached its highest ever extent during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

Neither feral cats, nor even just a giant rug made from their fur, really cover all the nearly three million square miles of Australia, the world's sixth largest nation by land mass.

Surfing is year round on the island driven by ocean swells that are unbroken by any land mass and originate in the South Pacific.

Warm tropical water forced by tides and Coriolis effect into a bottleneck created by a land mass funnel causes a small sensible energy fluctuation that drives folks absolutely nuts trying to figure it out.

That time is August each year and it is driven by land mass heating in the northern hemisphere.

The circumpolar cyclone is not interrupted by land mass as it is in the north and constantly blow from west to east.

Though it's not necessarily the largest state by land mass, Indiana still boasts a population that will trump most states.

It's also the largest by land mass, measuring 283 square miles from the developing Long Island City to Flushing.

Not exact matches

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by some of best minds in self - driving cars, has landed partnerships with Volkswagen Group (vlkay) and Hyundai (hyundai - motor) to help bring fully autonomous vehicles to the masses faster.

Since money can be saved by mass production, huge hog farms now raise their hogs in miserable condition, meanwhile massively polluting the land and water and bankrupting farmers who try to continue more natural production methods.

christianity was made up by man, Constantine legalized it in 311bc, to control the masses, and for land gain, later in 800ce (the monarch Charlemagne, Treaty of Verdun), and profit, all prophesied in Daniel 11:36 - 45, and so is all religions they are pagan idolatry, not of the true Creator YHWH the King of all Life.

And from my Canadian perspective (in a country with the grand total of 35 million people, living in one of the world's largest land - masses) is respond compassionately — again paying attention to quotas and targets established by the powers that be, including absurd comedian characters like Trump.

You can thump your chest and roar your bs «alpha male wan na be» roar all you like, but in reality land of USA and Earth 2016, pulling yourself up by your own boot straps is something rich people tell poor people to keep them hoping that maybe, just maybe, someday if I try hard enough... It's little more than a ploy to keep the masses from rebelling.

Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km2, Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south.

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

Britain's land mass will shrink by a third.

Essentially, by dropping this dense lithospheric anchor, there has been an upward bobbing of the entire land mass across hundreds of kilometres,» said Professor Oğuz H. Göğüş of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), lead author of a study reporting the findings published in Nature Communications this month.

Since 2007, Beijing elites have been hyping East Asia as a land mass uniquely placed to bring about an «ecological civilisation», underpinned by the Confucian belief in harmony with nature.

Before it was sliced open by a shipping canal in 1914, the Isthmus of Panama united a land mass stretching from the Arctic Circle to subantarctic southern Patagonia.

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

It also caused a decrease in precipitation by approximately 70 - 85 percent on land and a decrease of approximately 5 - 7 °C in seawater temperature at a 50 - m water depth, leading to mass extinction of life forms including dinosaurs and ammonites.

«This adds to the theory that these two land masses were separated by a stretch of water, stopping animals from moving between them, causing the animals in Appalachia to evolve in a completely different direction, resulting in some pretty weird looking dinosaurs.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

Water that used to hold down land masses in California is now being lost, so some parts of the state's mountains are being uplifted by a surprising amount

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

New investigations by geoscientists of the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Bonn and the Jacobs University Bremen have shown that large land masses did indeed exist on Earth 2.7 billion years ago

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

By linking worldwide data on solid waste, population density, and economic status, we estimated the mass of land - based plastic waste entering the ocean.

Indeed, the Oligocene - Miocene boundary was marked by numerous tumultuous geological events, including a collision between the land masses that make up Africa and Arabia on one side and Europe and other parts of Asia on the other.

Because much of Earth's land mass is covered by plants, there is a large source of these biogenic aerosol particles that need to be accounted for in climate change prediction.

The timing and severity of ice ages are determined by two major factors, namely the level of sunlight falling on northern land masses and the associated levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

In northern latitudes the reverse is happening — land is rising after being liberated from the mass of the ice sheets, again normally by less than 1mm / yr, but in places over 5mm / yr (Peltier et al. 2015).

The latter is almost linearly related to changes in ice sheet volume; the former, however, is influenced by a range of factors, including atmosphere / ocean dynamics and changes in Earth's gravitational field, rotation, and crustal and the mantle deformation associated with the redistribution of mass between land ice and the ocean.

Old World kosher certification was highly - centralized in each community and often backed by the government, but when Jews immigrated to America en masse, they found that such a system was unworkable in a land of free markets, mass production, and religious liberty.

There is such complete control of the mass of this land - lubbing mega-yacht that it feels heavier than its 4745 - pound curb weight just by sheer power of the kinetic energy you feel as you fussilade down the highway.

But going by Google's tendency to let the masses know of what they are up to, which is in contrast to the secretive approach that Apple adopts, what we can be sure of is that any new development in this field will surely land up in public domain soon enough.

The Rocky Mountains, commonly referred to as the «Rockies», are a mountainous region that stretch 3,000 miles from the northern-most part of British Columbia in Western Canada, to New Mexico in the Southwest United States.The striking landscape is surrounded by public parks and forest lands, which over the years have drawn in mass amounts of tourism, particularly -LSB-...]

By the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire covered one sixth of the world's land mass, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west, all the way to Alaska in the east.

Just 11 km long and 2 km wide, two thirds of its land mass is covered by Banyan, Pandanus and native Kentia Palm forests, its many perfect beaches are safe, pristine and tranquil.

Experience a comprehensive overview of the Torres Strait Islands and the huge Peninsula land mass as you return to Cairns by air.

Coral reefs are formed by the attachment of multicellular invertebrates to rock and limestone build up around land masses.

Wii brought four - player mayhem to the masses in 2009, followed up by Kirby's Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Kirby's Return to Dream Land in the ensuing years.

Traveling to the island by plane is likely to end in disaster as forces surrounding the land mass destabilise any aircraft entering the perimeter.

The Anthropoid map takes place in Prague, Czechoslovakia featuring a center land mass divided by a river.

Kozik, recently named one of ABN «s Top 50 Emerging Artists of 2012, describes the mass destruction caused by the mountain pine beetle, saying, «Regions of forest land have been lost to this destructive force, yet wood that has fallen victim to beetle kill has a material strength, resilience and beauty that is unlike lumber from healthy pine.

The Landing is pleased to announce our solo exhibition by Morgan MacLean, Massing the Void.

Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.

Sea levels are effected by movement of land masses both upward and downward, changes in gravitational pulls on the water due to changes in ice masses.