Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres at»

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).

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The peer - reviewed paper, from US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, looked at sales of 7,500 houses at a variety of distances from wind farms, running from a few hundred metres to 15 km.

Large fish like tuna have been tracked before, but only with tags that communicate with Argos environmental monitoring satellites, which are accurate to a couple of hundred metres at best.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

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.

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

Greg Holland of the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have arrived at a different theory after collecting samples of the noble gas krypton from several hundred metres beneath New Mexico.

In 2015, James Head at Brown University and Michael Carr at the US Geological Survey estimated that the equivalent of a global ocean a few hundred metres deep was needed to explain all the geological features that look like they were formed by water.

Still, at only a few hundred metres down, where pressure reaches a few tens of atmospheres, a whole host of other problems kick in.

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.

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

The sand out front vanishes at high tide but you can always walk a couple of hundred metres over to the main stretch of Bang Bao Beach.

Standing at an altitude of three hundred metres and reached by a funicular railway from the spa town of Montecatini Terme, the medieval town of Montecatini Alto dominates the hill from which it takes its name, treating visitors to spectacular panoramic views of the surrounding Tuscany countryside.

Standing at 2,430 metres above sea level, the site is often shrouded in early morning mists that slowly disperse to reveal beautiful stone architecture of palaces, temples, storehouses and terraces with hundreds of steep stairways connecting the structures.

After sinking in September 2000, a few hundred metres off Thai Muang beach, the Condreco now rests on her side at a depth of 20 meters.

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.

This also means that the location is very safe for kids — no through traffic and the main road is a couple of hundred metres away at the rear of the property — so there's no traffic noise either.

From here the walk has been extended past Gibson's Steps via an underpass which takes you to the other side of the road and the last several hundred metres to finish at the Twelve Apostles visitor centre where you'll find toilets and a cafe.

Boat launch areas off the beach are found at the 163 km sign post between Wye and Kennett only a couple of hundred metres from the park, 4WD vehicles essential.

Sundowner Cruises offer several options and at the end of your jaunt will leave you at the Port of Airlie, just a few hundred metres from Walter's Lounge, the perfect choice for dinner.

Elevated at 1600 metres, the entire region is a natural wonder in itself, and is home to hundreds of species of wildlife, from grizzly bears to bald eagles.

Don't just imagine yourself hanging in the crystal waters of Layang - Layang at 25 metres down as hundreds of hammerheads cruise past only metres from you mask - do it!

Tom Na H - iu (2006), a place where transmigrate souls were believed to rest in ancient Celtic religion, is a large glass monolith five metres high, lit from within by hundreds of LED lights and connected to Super Kamiokande, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at The University of Tokyo.

At the height of the last ice age, sea levels were about 120 metres below present day levels, and the average rise of sea level during the return to our present climate was about 1 metre per one hundred years.

It's because the deep ocean (the majority of it) is colder (often far colder) than the upper few hundred metres at most places.

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

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).

Only someone who has never felt the wind on their face can honestly fail to comprehend the massive physical impact of something that weighs hundreds of tons and has reinforced plastic «wings» up to 60 metres and beyond thrashing through the air at hundreds of kilometres per hour disturbing and impacting everything in its path.

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.

The thick and slow - moving interior ice reservoir is generally fixed to the underlying bedrock while the ice streams glide over lubricated beds at velocities of up to several hundred metres per year.

And as I used to see every summer, the combination of all of these factors means that the trees up near the treeline are often visibly stressed, branch tips turning brown, far into the downhill side of the inverse parabola, while trees a few hundred metres lower were doing fine at essentially the same temperature.

No, Henry, it is becoming part of the multi-year ice in the Arctic ocean (mult - multi at thousands of years and hundreds of metres thick.

If the strongest vibrations from wind turbines are, at best, detectable at a distance of 11 km then they must be quite undetectable by human senses at distances of hundreds of metres or more from the turbines.