Sentences with phrase «continents move each year»

With GPS receivers at high precision we can measure how far the continents move each year.

Not exact matches

London's 328 - year old insurance market, Lloyd's of London, is planning to move some of its operations to the continent in reaction to the UK's Brexit vote.

She will be moving away to another continent next year.

Many years later, I then got to know my Argentine housemate, Juan, on exchange in Mannheim, Germany, where we would chat in our shared kitchen — a sprinkling of sentences here and there as I finished dinner and as he started his — where we'd eventually fall in love and after two years of a long - distance relationship, I later moved to Buenos Aires to live in the same country and continent as him.

The 19 year - old is tipped as one of the highest rated young players on the continent, and was strongly linked with moves to the Premier League.

Brazilian defender Alex is said to be the subject of a renewed bid from QPR and the 29 year old is believed to be keen on a possible short distance move to Loftus Road though a number of club's on the continent are also interested in the former PSV man.

Sources close to the 28 - year - old have stated that the former Barcelona and Udinese man was looking to move back to the continent with Bayern Munich and Juventus leading the chase.

Although Scottish winger Oliver Burke ended his stint with Leipzig after a year, moving to West Brom for $ 15 million last week, plenty more British youngsters have moved to clubs across the continent this summer.

Any avid Football Manager player will be fully aware of the vast potential that the midfielder possesses in those feet of his and if you're looking for a safe long - term investment then look no further for the 18 - year - old, for whom a move to one of the continent's big boys is surely just on the horizon.

Right now, the human, social and political cost of not having acted decisively on the migrant crisis is huge: the Schengen Agreement lies in tatters, thousands of migrants have died, millions are on the move (on average, two thousand per day are arriving in Europe this year so far), and anti-immigration feelings have been inflamed across the continent.

Alireza's life has been punctuated by long journeys between continents: Born in Mexico City in 1958, Alireza moved to the United States with her family a few years after finishing high school.

The Earth we know generally moves in nonmysterious ways, but the latest evidence from an international team of geoscientists shows that about 800 million years ago, our planet executed a tricky balancing act that changed the course of the continents.

«The America's are unique in that humans moved through two continents, from Alaska to Patagonia, in just 1500 years,» says Professor Chris Turney, from the University of New South Wales.

The first dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago, but for the next 30 million years, all but the very smallest were restricted to the world's high latitudes, far from the equator — even though the continents were connected, with no barriers to prevent large dinosaurs from moving around.

You can pretty much play all year round if you move among continents.

Following a 24 + years Army career that took place over three continents, we moved to the beautiful and green Tennessee Valley — Northern Alabama area and we are so happy not to be moving every couple of years.

After spending nearly 2 years living in Argentina, she moved back to the US to explore her own continent.

Moving beyond conventional ideas of the African continent and its «counterpart», «the Western hemisphere,» this year's Focus will provide a glimpse of international artistic production from contemporary African viewpoints: emerging curators, artists, galleries and art spaces that connect scenes and markets through global networks.

During the year of 1976, Dumas made a key decision to relocate herself to another continent — she moved to Amsterdam after she won a scholarship and began her extensive studies at the Dutch artist - run Institute de Ateliers.

Indeed, that year, many tropical storm systems never reached land because high pressure, moving in a southeasterly direction off of the North American continent, bumped into them and shredded them.

But without the ice shelves to impede the flow of glacial ice, typically moving 400 — 900 meters a year, the flow of ice from the continent could accelerate, leading to a thinning of the ice sheet on the edges of the Antarctic continent.

That is because on a timescale of several millions of years continents and oceans may not move much, but plate tectonics can still have rather large climatic impacts.

Bacteria traveling on solid surfaces at a few cm per hour move several thousand times as fast as continents at a few cm per year.

You could argue I suppose that continental drift played a factor and that is an internal forcing but frankly, if you have to move a continent to make my assertion false, I'm no more concerned than I am about a few tenths of a degree over 130 years.

It seems unlikely, for example, that the salinity of a particular ocean location will change dramatically from one period to another unless the two time periods are separated by tens of millions of years (through moving continents) or there's some extraordinary temporary event (such as the emptying of a large glacial lake) just before one of the two measuring points.

And a significant event in last 50 million years is India crashed into Asia and Antarctic continent - moved to the south pole.

Two of the frozen continent's fastest - moving glaciers are shedding an increasing amount of ice into the Amundsen Sea each year.

As recently as 50 years ago, the scientific «consensus» was that the continents didn't move.

By the time I was in college ten years later, it was recognized that continents did indeed move, and had done so for most of Earth's history.

the reason the period of the last 1000 years isn't much of a priority in terms of paleo simulations is that you need some specified change to external forcing (solar, atmospheric composition) or bottom boundary conditions (like continents moving around) to get a simulation that is different from present.

Having spent the past year on different continents - I moved to America for a year as part of my degree while he stayed in in the UK - we are now living in two English towns, about a hundred miles apart.

The company officially launched in South Africa this year, overseeing local listings while outlining plans to move upwards throughout the rest of the continent.