Sentences with phrase «covering thousands of square miles»

The environment of these earliest Mesoamericans was quite different from that existing today, for volcanoes were then extremely active, covering thousands of square miles with ashes.

The entire United States is your driving playground, covering thousands of square miles from city to suburb, county to county, state to state, coast to summit.

The Great Patriotic War was an immense struggle, lasting more than 4 years, and covering thousands of square miles of Europe and Asia.

Not exact matches

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

The loss of the already isolated Mono Basin population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole, covering 14 counties across two states and spanning thousands of square miles.

The project would expand through the state, river basin by river basin, eventually covering the Amazon and some of its largest tributaries, including the Rios Negro, Purus, Jurua, and Madeira, an area measuring hundreds of thousands of square miles.

The still - booming city of Los Angeles covers one thousand square miles and a variety of landscapes from desert to ocean to mountains.

Besides being home to the nation's new capital of Belmopan, the Cayo District, covering some two thousand square miles of verdant landscape, has some of the most scenic attractions in Belize: clear, meandering rivers, lush jungles, green hillsides, thundering waterfalls, huge cave systems, two of Belize's most important Mayan ruins, and a pine ridge forest just waiting for you to explore and experience.

The Balearic Islands cover a total area of about one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven square miles, and have a population of approximately one million, one hundred thousand residents.

Bobby, all of your arguments as based on the ASSUMPTION that there MAY be significant photonic bounceback, that said bounceback, if any, is significantly worse than the reflections off the sand the light would hit anyway, that any bounceback would propagate all the way back up out of the atmosphere, and that we need to cover «thousands» of square miles with solar cells.

The problem with algae is still the fact that it takes a certain amount of energy to split the CO2 molecule, and since there's only so much energy in sunlight, you'd need to cover many thousands of square miles with algae ponds to have a significant effect.

International corporations are modifying our weather all the time, and modifying it in ways that cover thousands and thousands of square miles.

«The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered hundreds of thousands of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, multiple times during Quaternary glacial epochs.