Sentences with phrase «into massive lakes»

Before then, rainfall across much of what is now the Amazon Basin drained westward into massive lakes that formed along the eastern rim of the Andes and then flowed north via rivers into the Caribbean.

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Crestwood's intention is to repurpose the crumbling salt mines underneath Seneca Lake's hillside into massive, unlined gas tanks for three highly pressurized products of fracking: methane (natural gas), and propane and butane (LPG, or Liquefied Petroleum Gases) and to turn the Finger Lakes into a fracked gas transportation and storage hub for the entire Northeast.

This glacial meltwater lake was enclosed in ice and experienced a massive breach during this period, which emptied an enormous volume of water into the ocean,» explains Herrle.

On September 14, 2006, the Cassini - Huygens Mission announced that it had detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole which might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below (press release).

His troubles are multiplied when he tries to sell a massive quantity of heroin to an undercover cop; though he evades capture, Bodnia dumps his 700 - gram stash into a lake and winds up owing Buric a sum large enough to immediately endanger his health.

Near Yellowknife, in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, Volkswagen showed us some of the science that goes into creating massive ice highways like those you've seen on shows such as «Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the Great Slave Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the year.

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Head deep into the Amazon Basin to La Selva Lodge on Garzacocha Lake, a tranquil body of water connected to the massive Amazon River system.

When you get to our Arenal lodge, you will be rewarded with the most amazing views of massive Arenal Volcano towering over the hotel, and the deep blue Lake Arenal stretching west into the sunset.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

China's massive Three Gorges Dam, which has already displaced more than 1 million people, may have claimed a new victim: Environmental researchers say it has helped turn the country's largest freshwater lake into a dried - out plain.