Sentences with phrase «half kilometer stretch»

A pilot test of the system will take place on a 10 - kilometer stretch of track near Mumbai within a few weeks, Branson said.

But Nigeria has threatened to reduce the volume of gas it supplies through the 678 kilometer stretch of pipeline to Ghana if it does not get information on how Ghana plans to pay the money owed it.

Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year) was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the scientists could explain, at most, 15 percent of the water loss in northwestern India.

Along a 3 - kilometer stretch of the Tollense River, archaeologists from the Mecklenburg - Vorpommern Department of Historic Preservation (MVDHP) and the University of Greifswald (UG) have unearthed wooden clubs, bronze spearheads, and flint and bronze arrowheads.

But in Haiti itself, his on - site survey revealed that the waves may have reached as high as three meters — and that several meter - high waves struck along a 100 - kilometer stretch of shoreline, all the way into the neighboring Dominican Republic.

During the outbreak, the disease spread over a 400 - kilometer stretch along Florida's coast and hit 16 other coral species.

Abigail Allwood of Macquarie University and her colleagues studied a 10 - kilometer stretch of rock in Australia's Pilbara region identified nearly 30 years ago as the remnants of stromatolites.

A friend and I spent a week hunting fossils along the Jurassic Coast, a 150 - kilometer stretch of English coastline just a few hours by train from London.

Since the discovery, researchers have found 91 other Tahina palms, along with 50 seedlings, all within a quarter - kilometer stretch of the island.

For years, scientists have posed questions about «the California population,» as if it were a homogenous entity, but now they realize that otters, especially adult females, rarely leave their original 10 - to 30 - kilometer stretch of coastline.

I found a one kilometer stretch of road that is quite flat and am sticking to it for the first month or so.

«By an absolute coincidence, Pikes Peak is also comprised of 156 corners, but over a 20 - kilometer stretch.

Seminyak's Petitenget Beach is a three - kilometer stretch of sand that borders the marvelously deep - blue Indian ocean.

It has warm blue water with a three and a half kilometer stretch of soft beige sand, plus diverse nature and stunning sunsets.

Enjoy a stroll along Abu Dhabi's scenic coastline, an eight kilometer stretch of waterfront.

Resting on a tranquil one - kilometer stretch of the pristine China Beach, near the ancient trading port of Hoi An in Vietnam, is a luxury resort and residential enclave known as The Nam Hai.

We went to a 5 kilometer stretch of white beach and the best thing was that it was fully deserted.

A five kilometer stretch of white sand beach and sparkling turquoise waters.

With a generous 1.5 kilometer stretch of soft white sand and consistent breaks reaching up to ten meters this is what surfing in paradise is all about.

Oak Beach is comprised of a few private beachfront houses on a 1.5 kilometer stretch of palm lined beachfront.

Featuring a four - kilometer stretch of white sands and azure waters, the beach is not only a haven for beach bums but also for those seeking fun things to do on the island.

You can walk along the seven kilometer stretch of natural silica sand, swim in crystal clear water...

Since Matabungkay is a 5 kilometer stretch, there are definitely a thousand things to do.

Like a runner who must first train for months before taking on the 42 - kilometer stretch, a writer must first do research and consider his characters, setting and story carefully before putting pen to paper,» Penkov said.

Born in the town of Jamalpur but now residing in Dhaka, Chowdhury determined to walk the 181 - kilometer stretch of rail line that was once the only way of traveling between these two towns.

Galsi must traverse a roughly 100 - kilometer stretch of water at depths in excess of 2,800 meters between Sardinia and the Italian mainland.

For example, in 1995, internal waves took an average of 200 hours to travel a 2,400 kilometer stretch in the Atlantic Ocean, but by 2015 they had sped up to take an average of 198 hours, which Zhao says indicates warming.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

The not - for - profit company refurbished a 3 - kilometer stretch of tracks, as well as a bridge, between the town of Byron Bay, where a 30kW solar array, battery storage system, and charging station has also been installed, and the nearby Elements of Byron Bay resort.

The HyNor project aims to enable hydrogen vehicles to travel along a 580 - kilometer stretch of highway by establishing a chain of hydrogen stations between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway.

The 30 - kilometer stretch of land from Zurich to Zug offers Blockchain startups progressive laws, a competitive hiring environment and low taxes a mix that has attracted many crypto entrepreneurs looking for a place to gain traction amid an uncertain international legal climate.

Not exact matches

The exercises are taking place off the coast of Quanzhou in the Taiwan Strait, a 110 mile (180 kilometer) stretch of water seperating the self - ruled island from mainland China.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline will run for 878 kilometers (550 miles), from Greece's border with Turkey to southern Italy, and includes a 105 - kilometer (65 - mile) stretch under the Adriatic Sea.

Located in western Mexico, the Pacific coast region stretches across 1,700 kilometers (1,054 miles) of beaches, mountains and valleys, spanning from the state of Sinaloa to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.

LIGO watches for a minuscule stretching of space with what amounts to ultraprecise rulers: two L - shaped contraptions called interferometers with arms 4 kilometers long.

In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sand.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

Although the comet's tail may ultimately stretch millions of kilometers through the solar system, its nucleus is likely smaller than New York's Central Park.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

They took 31 water samples at 11 locations over a stretch of 820 kilometers.

Based on the vocalizations, they estimated there were as many as 1.5 million fish in a 17 - mile (27 - kilometer) stretch of river channel during one peak spawning day.

The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).

The mysterious 10,000 - kilometer - long structure was so big that it appeared to stretch between the planet's poles.

The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.

Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

The only signs of the pipe are a gap in the trees that stretches for kilometers, a tiny yellow marker that says «Warning: Carbon Dioxide Pipeline,» and a little shack that houses the pumps that keep the CO2 moving underground and pressurized.

A «strewn field» emerged: a stretch of desert roughly 10 kilometers long and a few kilometers wide strewn with pieces that fell as Black Beauty broke up in the final moments of its descent.

How the giant feature was formed, itself one small stretch of the 4000 - kilometer - long Valles Marineris rift valley, remains a mystery.

The simulations showed that the scoured area would stretch for perhaps thousands of kilometers from the impact point, consistent with the swirling streaks that extend across the Moon's surface.

The researchers» tents are perhaps 100 meters from a road that transects the country, stretching 800 kilometers south to Brazzaville.