Sentences with phrase «hundreds of metres deep»

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

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.

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

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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.

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).

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

Unsuspected before the invention of sonar, every night after dark, in many parts of the ocean, billions of small creatures move vertically from the forever dark deeps, upwards to within a couple hundred metres of the surface, sometimes less.