Sentences with phrase «hundreds of meters»

Today it's a full - time bed and breakfast, although it's still surrounded by hundreds of meters of vineyard.

But new data suggest that there are zones of liquid water hundreds of meters below the surface.

Every day with the tides the water retreats for hundreds of meters in places to reveal a the lagoon floor of sand, coral and seaweed.

This worked really well too, letting us hear cars from hundreds of meters down the road without stopping us from enjoying our running playlist.

They show up during the warm season, grow hundreds of meters long, and then fade as winter approaches.

The tree line was hundreds of meters higher 3000 years ago, we still find remnants of trees under glaciers.

A comet's nucleus can range from hundreds of meters to tens of kilometers across.

These masses of shattered rock atop the radioactive melt core of a bomb test can be hundreds of meters across, and melt as much rock as a medium - size volcano.

Generally, as you move to higher frequencies, transmission range gets shorter — hundreds of meters rather than kilometers.

Along fast - flowing outlet glaciers, ice speeds can reach hundreds of meters or even several kilometers per year.

All this is amplified by the fact that below each towering building, every street and cinema there are hundreds of meters of air and a very long fall to your death.

Both the bus and they have to go back and forth a few times to be able to pass each other on the edge of hundreds of meters deep ravines.

Some crystals came from material that had explosively erupted from Earth's surface and then accumulated in layers hundreds of meters thick (such as those near the Angara River, shown), and others came from similarly voluminous magma that had remained underground but had infiltrated and heated carbon - rich material near the surface, creating carbon dioxide.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

The reason is because you'll die a lot, and the last thing you need is to spend five minutes trekking across the map only to die and spawn hundreds of meters away from your objective.

Stefan Bachu, who holds the title «distinguished scientist» at Alberta's provincially funded research organization, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF), said the saline reservoir that the Quest project has chosen for storage is capped by hundreds of meters of solid shale, overlaid by an additional layer of tight salt rock.

Beaked whales, which often have dolphinlike snouts rather than blunt muzzles, typically dive hundreds of meters or more to chase squid, fish, and other prey.

Such leaks could occur at hundreds of meters underground, with methane passing laterally and vertically through fracture systems.

Drilling through hundreds of meters of rock, investigators have finally reached the «footprint» left by the accused.

A rumbling volcano on the Indonesian resort island of Bali spewed smoke hundreds of meters into the air Saturday, officials said, just days after thousands were forced to flee over fears it would erupt.

Designed in 1975 by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., the Cancun Golf Club at Pok - Ta - Pok artistically incorporates hundreds of meters of dramatic shoreline and ancient Mayan ruins into a truly enjoyable experience for golfers of all abilities.

These clusters of centimeter - long individuals, each beating tiny feathered legs, can, in aggregate, create powerful currents that may mix water over hundreds of meters in depth.

The greenhouse gas is stored as gas hydrates, chunks of frozen gas and water, up to hundreds of meters under the seabed.

The radar was apparently bouncing off the surfaces of subglacial lakes hundreds of meters down, one covering about 5 square kilometers and the other a little more than 8 square kilometers, the researchers report today in Science Advances.

These reefs can be found in subarctic waters in hundreds of meter depth as well as at thousand - meter depths at subtropical and tropical latitudes.

In 2016, scientists drilled hundreds of meters below the ocean floor into the peak ring of the crater, obtaining samples of coesite and other rocks, and all but closing the debate by supplying robust evidence that it was indeed an impact crater.

Ocean turbulence stirred up by multitudes of creatures such as krill can be powerful enough to extend hundreds of meters down into the deep, a new study suggests.

The oozy red slush of Blood Falls in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contains teeming microbial life — and may be a sample of a deep briny groundwater system hundreds of meters below the surface.

«That's a lot of water to lift hundreds of meters of ice.»

The finding represents the first direct evidence of the presence of liquid - filled channels on Titan, as well as the first observation of canyons hundreds of meters deep.

«There's potentially hundreds of meters of ice, if not maybe a few kilometers, that may well be quite habitable,» Eicken says.

They found glacial fjords hundreds of meters deeper than previously estimated; the full extent of the marine - based portions of the glaciers; deep troughs enabling Atlantic Ocean water to reach the glacier fronts and melt them from below; and few shallow sills that limit contact with this warmer water.

Lakes that look isolated when seen from the surface may actually be connected hundreds of meters below the permafrost — and, if Blood Falls is typical of what that briny water holds, there may also be a vast ecosystem lurking down there, she says.

NEPTUNE's continuous monitoring allowed Thomsen's team to make the first connections between hydrate release and climate - induced changes hundreds of meters above.

Independent analysis of dust devils by graduate student Jenny Fisher of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena shows that some vortices span hundreds of meters and tower 8.5 kilometers — probably tall enough to suspend dust at high altitudes.

From their vantage point on dry land, NEPTUNE's deep - sea explorers have made connections between storms raging on the sea surface and plumes of gas bubbling out of the seafloor hundreds of meters below.

The UNH - NOAA team is already planning a sonar system that could be lowered on a cable hundreds of meters into the ocean and towed beneath the boat, allowing it to better track oil in the depths.

Researchers are now planning and building a next generation of even bigger and more isolated detectors deep beneath the ground where hundreds of meters of overlying rock shield against most anthropogenic noises and seismic stresses.

Creatures that dwell hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface are notoriously strange and alluring, and the lanternshark is no exception.

A pilot project in Ketzin, Germany, is monitoring the long - term storage of carbon in a porous layer of sandstone hundreds of meters underground.

But how do the birds track these familiar sites hundreds of meters below as they zip by at 65 kilometers per hour?

They hastily modified Quince, a survey droid on caterpillar treads that climbs stairs and debris, by equipping it with two cameras, a dosimeter, and a power and communications cable that stretched hundreds of meters.

The result was striking: fibers hundreds of meters long that are four times tougher than spider silk, and 17 times tougher than Kevlar used in bulletproof vests.

Studies of lakes sealed beneath hundreds of meters of ice in Antarctica have provided a compelling picture of how this might work.