Sentences with phrase «far above sea level»

While the Chimborazo is not as far above sea level as Mount Everest (29,029 ft.), it's location near the equator makes it the furthest point from the center of the Earth.

How far above sea level is a place located?

Space is considered to be a common heritage and is not owned or controlled by any government, but how far above sea level is considered to be sovereign territory?

Not exact matches

Roughly 4000 metres above sea level in the mountains of far - north Argentina, things finally appear to be clicking for ASX - listed lithium pro...

The biggest marine landslide ever recorded happened 7,200 years ago off the coast of Norway, and there was a tsunami, but it was a far cry from leaving deposits 200 meters above sea level,» Bryant says.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), a massive observatory now under construction five kilometers above sea level in Chile, should further illuminate the workings of distant galaxies when it opens for scientific use in 2011.

Then, about 3600 years ago, farmers started climbing higher and higher up on the plateau, reaching as far as 3400 meters above sea level.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

Home to Indonesia's oldest existing religious structures, the Dieng Plateau perches some 2,000 metres above sea level in Central Java dominated by Gunung Prau (2,600 metres) and Gunung Sindoro (3,150 metres), 100 kilometres southwest of Semarang and slightly further northwest of Yogyakarta.

Before arriving in Peru I'd hiked up to an altitude of 2650 metres in the Picos de Europa, and my skiing trips to the Sierra Nevada mountain range (also in Spain) had seen me descending from heights of around 3000 metres above sea level, but this was nothing in comparison to the summit of the Dead Woman's Pass, which lay 1200 metres above the pinnacle of my experience thus far.

They are somewhat like doorstops, and their speeded erosion could, possibly, let far greater volumes of ice sitting above sea level shifting toward the sea.

Yes, it continues to show sea level remains stubbornly well above the trend line, which means 5, 10, 15, and maybe even 20 - year rates re far above the satellite - era trend of 3.4 mm per yr.

Bonus Question Fly in Google Earth to the Pantheon (in Rome), and determine whether even the top of the Pantheon's famous dome will remain above the ocean - waters, in the event of sea - level rise far milder than Hansen's predictions.

The message: sea levels may rise even further than feared...» Much more at the article, link above.

They jacked up the buildings and deposited dredged sand beneath the raised structures and built a large seawall for further protection.They could attempt the same in New Orleans to raise some of the lower sections of the city above sea level.

Sadly, I didn't get a chance to test it on any summits, but I was able to see how far up the Digital Trends office is above sea level!

Elevations in the state range from 54 feet above sea level in the far southeast corner to 2,753 feet above at Mount Magazine, the state's highest point.