Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres»

Hundreds of metres of rock above us protect the detectors from atmospheric particles that could mimic such a strike.

A tip off from a recycled cellphone hanging hundreds of metres away in the forest.

But it creates a column of glowing gas tens of kilometres long and hundreds of metres wide.

In the second world war, he saved countless lives by helping the Allied military determine when troops could make amphibious landings without being swamped by big surf hundreds of metres from a hostile shore.

This model does not, however, explain one of the most puzzling features of this rapid deglaciation; namely the global formation of hundreds of metres thick deposits known as «cap carbonates», in warm waters after Snowball Earth events.

Eyewitnesses said the killer swerved from side to side to kill as many people as possible as he drove for hundreds of metres along the Promenade des Anglais on the seafront of the city in the south of France.

In spite of the tyre pressures, the car's traction was better than expected, thanks to the Haldex all - wheel - drive system, which reacted fairly promptly in the deep sand encountered (over sections of hundreds of metres at a time).

Bacteria living hundreds of metres below the seafloor carry more genetic changes than their peers nearer the surface — even though the deep microbes are unlikely to reproduce and undergo natural selection in its traditional sense.

Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1 centimetre wide.

Although some of the plumes extended hundreds of metres above the ocean floor, the bubbles emanating from deep - water sources typically dissolved into the sea long before they could breach the surface, says Skarke.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

What causes boulders to glide hundreds of metres across a desert lake bed?

Therefore, it was only after nearly an hour that the controllers realised that Philae had bounced hundreds of metres from the landing area.

A day earlier, two men had been attacked by sharks in separate incidents just hundreds of metres and a few hours apart while surfing at breaks a stone's throw up the coast from where heats were being held for the Margaret River Pro.

A weapon that fires a beam hundreds of metres to induce unbearable pain is ready to be unleashed on the world — what should be done with it?

But even standard - size facilities require tunnels hundreds of metres long to reach gigaelectronvolt (GeV) energies.

Some of them, in the so - called «dark energy biosphere», are the deepest living organisms, somehow surviving hundreds of metres underground, far from the sun's life - giving light.

Over time, the moon should have built up an ethane ocean hundreds of metres deep.

Armed, ready and completely fearless, the sentry has senses keen enough to spot an intruder hundreds of metres away, even at night.

Standard grenade launchers can fire it at targets hundreds of metres away, marking vehicles and people over a wide radius from the point of impact.

«Over a period of a million years, which is our standard unit of measurement, the movement of the mantle can cause the surface to move up and down by hundreds of metres.»

Supply chain was also very important — we used hundreds of metres at Gascoigne, with the three compartment trunking in every single room apart from the kitchen and main hall.

Ceduna Tours will take you to the head of the Great Australian Bight Whale Sanctuary where you can get up close to southern right whales in their breeding ground, within hundreds of metres from the towering Bunda Cliffs.

With cliffs plunging hundreds of metres down to rocky coves churning with foamy surf, it's no wonder that many people consider Big Sur the most dramatic stretch of coastline anywhere in the world.

As such, there are a dozen dive sites around the island within a 10 minute boat ride which can vary from gardens of coral bommies to vertical coral walls plummeting hundreds of metres.

These impressive ice cracks dropping hundreds of metres one day can be gone the next as they fluctuate with a glacier's flow.

The south and the centre of the Laptev Sea is underlain by a permafrost layer several hundreds of metres thick, generally preventing petroleum from seeping into the water.

Each morning we would walk from our last day's pueblo hundreds of metres up onto the Meseta, then walk many kilometres on our trail between the fields.

Rolling for hundreds of metres this is ideal for those who love to longboard or practice some carves on big open faces!

«We made several cross-sections of hundreds of metres of basin sediments and we determined the exact positions of ash beds contained in these marine sediments,» explained Björn Baresel, first author of the study.

They used airborne radar soundings and satellite data to show that beneath the glacial ice were valleys so deeply incised that some of them were hundreds of metres below sea level, at distances tens of kilometres from the sea.

When you head out to see the stunning cliffs of Bali's Nusa Penida, it can take a moment to realise that not only are you staring across to sheer massive walls of rock that soar to hundreds of metres high, but you're actually standing on those cliffs yourself.

He also saw beach - like landscapes, hundreds of metres above the present - day waters of the Pacific.

The geologists say that the ancient canyon — hundreds of metres deep in places — effectively rules out a popular model used to explain how the massive and picturesque gorges of the Himalaya became so steep, so fast.

The fungal network (mycelium) also provides bacteria with an excellent infrastructure: there may be hundreds of metres of fungal hyphae winding through just one gram of soil.

For starters, we are talking about working at depths of kilometres, rather than hundreds of metres, usual for water.

On the freeway it doesn't disappoint with its handy knack of reeling in hundreds of metres of tarmac in a sudden rush.

Rockfaces are covered by rainforest, with crystal clear waterfalls tumbling down them hundreds of metres.

Medewi is known for its very long left point break, peeling gently for hundreds of metres, and Balian produces some amazingly consistent waves all year round as it breaks at the river mouth.

Open path gas detectors (OPGD) are available for the detection of combustibles (LEL) as well as toxic (e.g., H2S) gas leaks at varying distances (up to hundreds of metres).