Sentences with phrase «half cubic miles»

Covering Everest 4,000 years ago would require the addition of 1,000,000,000 cubic miles of water.

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

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.

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

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last year the final mid-summer hypoxic zone was 1.45 cubic miles.

Scientists once thought the shallow magma chamber was 1,000 cubic miles.

The researchers estimate the ancient Eridania sea held about 50,000 cubic miles (210,000 cubic kilometers) of water.

one can hardly take 4,800 cubic miles lightly.

The amount of erupted material jumped from 0.2 to 0.6 cubic kilometer (0.05 to 0.14 cubic mile) annually.

Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica and their peripheral ice caps and glaciers averaged 385 billion tons (100 cubic miles) a year.

The Deccan volcanic eruptions there would ultimately belch out some 1.3 million cubic kilometers (300,000 cubic miles) of molten rock and debris.

Deccan volcanic eruptions spewed more than a million cubic kilometers (240,000 cubic miles) of molten rock and debris in what is now India.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

About a quarter of the average annual ice loss came from glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica (roughly 148 billion tons, or 39 cubic miles).

Whether «another 4,200 cubic miles» is exact, or a bit over or under, is secondary.

(quote) «Early calculations show that it would take another 4,300 cubic miles of fresh water from the Arctic to trigger a shutdown of the conveyer belt, Curry said.

With an average thickness of 625 feet, the iceberg will contain 277 cubic miles of ice.

All of the oceans on Earth are estimated to have a volume of 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) and an average depth of 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters).

We should first understand why the earth has so much ice — 7 million cubic miles, of which 88 % is in Antarctica and 10 % in Greenland.

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.»

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

A cubic mile is 5,280 * 5,280 * 5280 = 147,197,952,000 cubic feet.

«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.

Today, 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water is contained in the five great lakes: 5,472 cubic miles (22,812 km ³), or six quadrillion U.S. gallons (22.81 quadrillion liters) in all.

One hundred cubic miles of comet Halley's tail contains much less matter than in a cubic inch of air we breathe — and is even less dense than the best laboratory vacuum.

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