Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres across»

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• The kinetic energy of an iron asteroid 500 metres across is about a hundred - thousandth the energy Earth receives from...

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.

Or is it the much more frequent impacts of smaller fragments a hundred metres or so across, which could devastate a city?

The oldest part of the town is situated a few hundred metres above the «newer» town below, and from here you can admire superb views across the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside.

Glaciers hundreds of metres deep across North America, global drought as evaporation slows to a trickle.