Sentences with phrase «giant waves»

A tsunami is a series of giant waves caused either by an earthquake or a volcanic eruption under the sea.

However, the wind speed estimates used are conservative and could be higher, generating truly giant waves.

Together they'll witness and support their favourite surf - pros as they dominate giant waves and ride flawless right - hand barrels.

Ground - based VLA spies giant wave of ammonia, while the Juno spacecraft gears up to go after the water.

Instead, he thinks the brightening could be the glint of sunlight reflecting directly off of giant waves on the lake, like how the ocean ripples with gold at sunset.

«Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere.»

In front of us were walls of sandstone, giant waves crashing on the beach, and a rocky peninsula just waiting to be explored.

In two separate pieces Susan Casey talks about her remarkable book The Devil's Teeth in which she reports on her time spent with the Great White Sharks, and the extraordinary people who study them, on the Farallon Islands, just 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco; and about the writing of The Wave - about giant waves and those who hunt them.

From the point - of - view of the deck of the cargo ship comes expansive sky, then calm horizon punctured by giant waves in foamy white tumults.

A beach meeting can be perfect on stormy winter day, with the wildness of the shore lending the date a certain romanticism (think giant waves and dramatic skies.).

Have you ever seen giant wave surfing?

It's known to be one of the first places where the guys ventured out in the 50's and rode giant waves.

The geologic evidence indicates that the higher sea - levels were accompanied by intense «superstorms,» which deposited giant wave - transported boulders at the top of cliffed coastlines, formed chevron - shaped, storm beach ridges in lowland areas, and left wave runup deposits on older dunes more than 30 meters above sea level.

To measure the size of these ancient giant waves to such sharp precision, BOSS had to make an unprecedented and ambitious galaxy map, many times larger than previous surveys.

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

DiChristina: Everything yeah, this is red earth, you're referring [to] Steve; it's an event called the great oxidation event and this started about two billion years ago and really set off the first giant wave of mineralization of changing varieties of minerals that we see in earth's history.

XPT founders and the inspiration behind the xpt program; with a culmination of 30 + years in high level athletics, chasing giant waves, playing professional volleyball, and exploring human possibilities, Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece set the tone in living a limitless life.

«Something here is making giant waves in the gene pool,» says Natalie Portman's Lena, a cell biologist and ex-soldier investigating weird events in «Annihilation.»

In the past, plate motion along the Aleutian Islands in Alaska has also generated giant waves like the one that swept through Crescent City, California, in 1964 (inset), smashing homes and killing 11 people.

Giant waves cause large - scale movement of particles in brown dwarfs» atmospheres, changing the thickness of the silicate clouds, researchers report in the journal Science.

Truly giant waves, such as water waves rolling across the ocean, can bend around an entire island and magically reappear behind it.

A beach meeting can be perfect on stormy winter day, with the wildness of the shore lending the date a certain Byronic romanticism (think giant waves and dramatic skies.).

When you're in charge of a ship, you deal with all kinds of unexpected issues that come your way on the water — everything from fires in the engine room and giant waves to enemy ships and submerged reefs.

You can take it on giant waves and small waves.»

It's a nice, relaxing beach where you can dip your baby's toes in the water and you don't have to worry they'll be taken out by a giant wave.

Mysterious disappearing features in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan are caused by sunlight reflecting off giant waves, said planetary scientist Alexander Hayes of Cornell University.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

Taken together, the evidence strongly suggested that Cascadia's fault was the source of the giant wave.

But, just as with the 2005 Sumatra quake, there was no giant wave on Feb. 8, 1843.

It is theorized that when these focused waves are superimposed on a chaotic ocean background, giant waves could form.

This week, a ground - based radio telescope has revealed that, beneath a veil of haze and clouds on Jupiter, there exists a giant wave of ammonia that circles the planet north of its equator.

The giant wave had caught only a very small number of large mammals, like wild boars, and not a single elephant or leopard was found dead.

They discovered that the giant wave removed three to five times more sand than any historical El Niño storm across the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Physicists believe that the explanation lies in giant waves that spread into space along the Sun's magnetic field lines, making them wobble like a washing line yanked hard at one end.

These giant waves traveled as far as 1,300 miles and reached heights of up to 39 feet.

All the clues pointed to one answer: A giant wave had struck Palaikastro Bay while freshly fallen ash from Thera was still lying about, inundating the town for miles inland and streaking it with strange patterns of ash.

For an observer stationed on the surface and revolving with it, the bulges would appear as a giant wave, which follows the apparent motion of the moon to the west and has two crests per lunar day.

But could even a giant wave be big enough to wipe out an entire civilization?

As one of the giant waves moves towards shore, the part nearest the cape meets shallower water first.

We should also expect that giant waves will propagate in their atmospheres (parallel with their equators) and that these waves will change the thickness of the clouds.

That's a time when, Hansen says, differences in ocean temperatures led to the formation of giant waves that swept boulders weighing over a thousand tons high up on Caribbean islands.

Part of the Stand Up World Series circuit, Lenny will be one of 40 SUP athletes padding an open course that stretches 7.5 miles, including under the Golden Gate Bridge, and includes waves over 10 feet high, Lenny says it gets him more excited than a normal race because he can take on the giant waves with the paddling.

, its almost as if it became a giant wave of raw emotion and adrenaline that spanned the entire concert.

Studies have proven that an outing to the beach can put you in a really positive frame of mind.6 On top of that, the wildness of the coast in winter can lend the date a certain Byronic romanticism, what with the giant waves and dramatic skies.

Plenty of effects fill the speakers including a giant wave submerging your rears as the restaurant explodes.

It was also mentioned that Black Panther is striking some giant waves of the celebration of the African Culture.

Probably my favorite scene occurred when Imhotep unleashed the giant wave.

I just generally get a giant wave of despondence washing over me when I see her in the credits.

It's always big smiles and giant waves to get attention.