Sentences with phrase «crater about»

Where is the severe ice age that should have followed the Dinosaur - killer meteor impacts at Chicxulub crater, Silverpit crater, and Boltysh crater about 65 million years ago?

Molokini is a sunken, extinct volcano crater about 2 miles of the coast!

Near the base of Diamond Head — the extinct volcanic crater about three miles west of Waikiki — a steady stream of surfers and hikers make their way down a...

Near the base of Diamond Head — the extinct volcanic crater about three miles west of Waikiki — a steady stream of surfers and hikers make their way down a paved hillside path leading to a gorgeous shoreline, occasionally dotted (discretely) with one of the area's multi-million dollar mansions.

Vesta's south polar basin is dominated by two overlapping craters, where the younger Rheasilvia impact obliterated most of the slightly smaller Veneneia crater about a billion years ago (more).

A surface feature of great interest to scientists is the Caloris basin, an impact crater about 1300 km in diameter, one of the biggest such craters in our solar system.

During the 2003 - 2008 bull market the energy sector rallied 290 % before cratering about 45 %.

Researchers found jagged, glassy rock fragments spread out over a 10 square kilometer (4 square mile) area around a series of small volcanic craters about 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) below the sea surface.

Not exact matches

Huge potholes resembling Serbian mortar craters caused drivers to weave about as if under the influence of an exotic tropical drug, and the maximum speed through the former banana port was about five miles an hour, slower even than in Nancy and Jeff's earthquake - ravaged Cahuita!

I tested the damn thing 11 times (because I'm fucking crazy I refused to share a recipe for a cake with a small crater in the middle)(I have serious OCD about properly leavening things) so that's a matter of fact.

My favorite thing about bagels is when they've got little nooks and crannies in them, so that when I slather the butter on there, I end up with lots of what I affectionately call «crater butter»:):) Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather:):):)

The Cubs could be worse (see: the smoldering crater in San Francisco), but this is about as reasonable of a worst - case scenario as presumptive favorites and defending champions can have.

I knew everything there was to know about my alma mater's football program, from Don Faurot creating the Split - T (and teaching it to future Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson during World War II), to Dan Devine nearly winning a national title in 1960 (damn Kansas beating Ol' Mizzou with an ineligible player), to the big upset wins (and ridiculous upset losses) of the 1970s, to the cratering of the 1980s and the early 1990s, to the Fifth Down, to the Flea Kicker (which I had the honor of seeing in person).

You're talking about the little crater things on all the patties, right?

We give out about Giroud but I'd take Giroud over crater top any day.

Another wants to be sure that the bit of bent grass he's about to repair is a ball crater and not a spike mark.

We learned all about the moon, made our own versions, and learned how all those craters are formed.

This is a great activity for learning about how craters form.

As mayor of one of the snowiest cities in America, Miner has the credentials to complain about crumbling infrastructure; how cold, snowy conditions can crack water pipes and create craters in roads.

The 140 - character blurts on Twitter will have the potential to crater stocks, worry populations, advertise his rallies and products, and give his fans cues about how to pillory his critics, writes Newsday's Dan Janison.

If you talk about public discourse right now, thirty years after, the things people are talking about are true federalism and devolution of powers and state supremacy, there are things that he had actually answered to, but people were not able to put the questions together and also to process it because of the way that Nigeria had being divided into craters and valleys.

Asked about immigration in the campaign, Miliband said: «Don't crater our economy to try to deal with concerns about immigration.

But our moon's rotational bulge — an equatorial diameter that would be, on average, about 200 meters longer than its diameter through the poles if the moon weren't so cratered with huge basins — is about 20 times larger than expected, based on its current once - per - month rate of rotation.

The team hopes to find new clues about how these large craters form and what made the impact so deadly.

And if the researchers can find those first species to recolonize the crater, the discovery could teach us not only more about the dinosaurs» demise, but also how life survived similar events billions of years earlier.

This view shows Alga Crater's central peak, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide within the 12 - mile (19 - kilometer) diameter of this southern - hemisphere crater.

Gale crater, excavated about 3.6 billion years ago into rocks of greater age, provided a window into the Red Planet's primitive crust.

And the decreased gravity, about one - sixth of Earth's, is perfect for taking slow, peaceful bounds among the craters.

Furthermore, Schultz's work suggests fragments from these giants could account for a many of the impacts that occurred during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, which occurred from about 3.8 billion years ago to around 4 billion years, when scientists think most of the craters we see on the Moon and Mercury were formed.

A massive impact on the Moon about 4 billion years ago left a 2,500 - mile crater, among the largest known craters in the solar system.

«Within a few kilometers of Victoria are smaller, older craters that might tell us more about Mars's past,» Callas says.

The AI identified 92 percent of known craters in that region and found about 6,000 new ones.

Forget about looking for anything as obvious as a crater.

The veteran Mars rover Opportunity has dug up evidence that groundwater flowed near a giant crater called Endeavour about 4 billion years ago.

During its 14 months in orbit around Vesta, the spacecraft delivered unprecedented scientific insights, including images of its cratered surface and important clues about its geological history.

Earth bears the scars of a few twin - asteroid impacts: the Clearwater Lakes near Hudson Bay in Canada, for instance, are craters that formed together about 290 million years ago.

A lack of craters on nearby surfaces point to an eruption in the recent geological past — within about 200 million years.

That crater spans about one - sixth the circumference of Phobos and looks as if someone took a scoop out of the moon.

Volcanic craters are plentiful, however, with more than 425 of them occupying about 2.5 % of the moon's surface.

Indeed, observes Smith, the «most curious aspect of the topographic map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth northern hemisphere and the heavily cratered southern hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles higher than the north.

The crater is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across.

The researchers discovered that the reflective features on the map match polar craters seen by Mariner 10 if the positions deduced from the spacecraft are about 1.5 degrees in error.

The valley extends down from the crest into the crater at a slope of about 15 to 17 degrees for a distance of about two football fields.

The GPS measurements show that the crater is inflating by about 2.5 centimetres each year.

Researchers also suspect that two Russian craters of about the same size as Manson — Kamensk (about 300 kilometres west of Volgograd) and Kara (on the Kara peninsula)-- may be roughly the same age, although neither has been dated.

By monitoring the rate at which a crater's surface is moving, researchers can predict when it is about to blow.

By studying material in the crater, scientists hope to learn about the subsurface of the planet.

What scientists know about such collisions is based mainly on a limited survey of craters around the world and on the moon.

The titanic force of the impacts that formed those two craters deformed the entire asteroid, nearly splitting it apart, and created broad troughs that encircle about two - thirds of its surface.

This is more than double previous estimates and, if correct, places the Alamo crater as one of the largest marine impacts in the last 550 million years, conservatively larger than the well - studied Chesapeake Bay impact crater (about 35 million years old) on the eastern shore of North America.