Sentences with phrase «cubic mile»

I was wondering how much more energy there must be in the arctic to melt so many more cubic miles of ice.

I was wondering how much more energy there must be in the arctic to melt so many more cubic miles of ice.

u «A second problem involves the great volume [hundreds of cubic miles in some cases] of pre-existing country rock which must be removed to provide space for an invading batholith — the eliminated country rock must be accounted for somehow.»

one can hardly take 4,800 cubic miles lightly.

Notable results included a report from researchers at MIT that Alaska lost an average of 10 and a half cubic miles of ice each year from 2003 to 2005.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

-- The 2,500 - cubic mile upper magma chamber sits beneath Yellowstone's 40 - by -25-mile caldera, or giant crater.

«We are looking at several cubic miles of lava in rapidly emplaced flows,» said Davies, who has developed models to predict the volume of magma erupted based on spectroscopic observations.

You canâ $ ™ t look at the behaviour of a few neurons and understand the functioning of a brain; likewise, you canâ $ ™ t look at a few ocean currents or a few cubic miles of atmosphere and understand the climatic system.

Our own solar system is some 6 billion cubic miles in size, with space for 4,000 more such cubes between us and the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.

That volcano's eruption moved seven cubic miles of sand within minutes, and cut canyons in soft rock within years.

No one knows how much water lies under the desert; estimates vary from 60 to 208 cubic miles.

The collision dug out only 1 percent of Vesta's volume, but that's over 250,000 cubic miles of rock — more than enough to have created the HED meteorites.

Forty cubic miles of water — enough to fill 64 million Olympic swimming pools — have disappeared from beneath California's Central Valley alone.

Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year.

According to marine geophysicist Robin Bell of Columbia University's Earth Institute, sea levels rise by about 1/16» for every 150 cubic miles of ice that melts off one of the poles.

Greenland was losing 12 cubic miles of ice each year.

When the asteroid hit, it's estimated that it delivered over a billion times the energy of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and displaced roughly 48,000 cubic miles of sediment.

The European Space Agency's CryoSat mission shows that the continent's volume dropped by 30 cubic miles each year from 2011 to 2014.

Over the past 11 million years, volcanoes have erupted thousands of cubic miles» worth of material over much of the Andean Plateau.

According to recent calculations, the upper limit on the present amount of water on the Martian surface is 800,000 to 1.2 million cubic miles, or about 1.5 times the amount of ice covering Greenland.

The simulation contains 8 * 10 ^ 52 cubic miles of gas - and dark matter - strewn space.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

Last March, geophysicists Isabella Velicogna and John Wahr at the University of Colorado at Boulder published a paper in Science Express that used GRACE data to show that the ice sheet covering Antarctica has shrunk by an average of 36 cubic miles of ice per year — surprising, given that many climate models predict a thickening of the ice as higher global temperatures lead to more evaporation and precipitation.

In the summer of 1783, the largest volcanic eruption of the past1, 000 years killed 9,000 Icelanders, dumped three cubic miles of lava into the surrounding region, and spewed out more than 100 million tons of gases.

Eruptions raged century after century, ultimately unleashing a quarter - million cubic miles of lava — the Laki eruption 100,000 times over.

* We currently use on the order of 960 cubic miles (4,000 cubic kilometers) of freshwater a year, and overall there's enough water to go around.

7 Flood - basalt volcanism In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted, spitting out three cubic miles of lava.

Ground - penetrating radar later confirmed these suggestions, and Lake Vostok, with its 1,300 cubic miles of liquid water, was revealed some two and a half miles below the ice.

More than 1,000 cubic miles of sediment and rock shifted.

The ice sheet there — 750,000 cubic miles of ice, which, if melted, would raise sea levels more than 16 feet, drowning south Florida — is bound not to land but to the seafloor.

A veteran Russian glaciologist went so far as to call the discovery of one of Antarctica's greatest subglacial lakes, Lake Vostok (now known to be the sixth - largest lake in the world, with a volume of about 1,300 cubic miles), «among the most important geographical discoveries of the second half of the 20th century.»

Vicious Cycle The earth holds about eight million cubic miles of freshwater — tens of thousands of times more than humans» annual consumption.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

In the mid-1990s, a lake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its history.

That's a sobering rate of loss, but it's only about half as much as the rate at which the Aral Sea itself is losing water (5.8 cubic miles or 24 cubic kilometers).

Zmijewski and Becker found that each year throughout the decade, the watershed lost an average of 2.9 to 3.4 cubic miles (12 to 14 cubic kilometers) of water, or the equivalent of one Lake Mead per year.

The ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

The catastrophic release of 600 cubic miles of water through a narrow gap would sweep away everything in its path.

We are literally awash in it: If the water were evaporated from the world's oceans, we'd be left with 4.5 million cubic miles of salt, equivalent to a cube measuring 165 miles on each side.

The 2015 Chesapeake Bay forecast calls for an oxygen - depleted, or hypoxic, region of 1.37 cubic miles, about 10 percent below the long - term average.

The forecasts call for a mid-summer hypoxic zone of 1.46 cubic miles, a mid-summer anoxic zone of 0.26 to 0.38 cubic miles, and a summer average hypoxia of 1.108 cubic miles, all at the low end of previously recorded zones.

In 2014, sustained winds from Hurricane Arthur mixed Chesapeake Bay waters, delivering oxygen to the bottom and dramatically reducing the size of the hypoxic zone to 0.58 cubic miles.

This is the seventh year for the Bay outlook which, because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary, focuses on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf.

The anoxic portion of the Chesapeake Bay dead zone is expected to be 0.27 cubic miles in the early summer, growing to 0.28 cubic miles in the late summer.