Sentences with phrase «kilometers deep»

How is it that drilling kilometers deep into the earth's crust on some of the least hospitable places on Earth to extract oil, or levelling mountains simply to get at a coal seam presents no problem at all, yet installing a wind turbine or solar panel is fraught with «difficulty»?

The top few meters alone store as much heat energy as the entire atmosphere, and the oceans average 3.7 kilometers deep.

A core can be collected in a few hundred meters depth of a few kilometers deep near trenches.

No climate scientist of any repute has claimed that the ice caps (ie, kilometers deep layers of ice covering Antarctica and Greenland, and some thinner ones on islands in the Canadian Archipelago) would have melted by now, or even by the end of the century.

Located about a two - hour boat ride south of Alert Bay, Knight Inlet is a fjord that juts 105 kilometers deep into the wilderness of the British Columbia mainland.

ice sheet The broad blanket of ice, most of it kilometers deep, that covers most of Antarctica.

− I work mainly with inland lakes, but also with the Baltic Sea, the oceans, water located several kilometers deep in the bedrock and shallow ground water.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

Thanks to the Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since July 2016, we now know these churning, swirling features extend — surprisingly — over 3,000 kilometers deep.

While we see evidence of a 8 - 10 km deep ocean on Enceladus today, in the past the water supply might have been many more kilometers deep, or many less.

Europa's ocean is thought to be 100 kilometers deep and covers the entire globe.

There, many kilometers deep, the carbonate rocks will be exposed to very high pressures and temperatures, converting the carbonate rocks back to the silicates and expelling CO2 and water — these gases will then find their ways to the surface through explosive volcanoes near the plate subduction boundaries.

The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific Ocean's Kermadec Trench, which is about 10 kilometers deep.

ice sheet A broad blanket of ice, often kilometers deep.

In their model, the ocean is 100 kilometers underneath Titan's surface and 300 to 400 kilometers deep.

The ocean is several tens of kilometers deep and surrounds a large rocky core.

Images from NASA's Galileo probe a few years ago, coupled with previous observations, suggest that Europa's ice - covered surface may conceal a global, liquid ocean tens of kilometers deep.

The magma comes from within the upper 200 kilometers of the mantle and not thousands of kilometers deep, as the mantle - plume theory suggests.

With funding from the salvage company RMS Titanic, Inc., the team mapped the area of the wreck, which lies four kilometers deep, in unprecedented detail using sonar.

In early March, Battelle Memorial Institute, a large research nonprofit based in Columbus, quietly withdrew plans to drill two holes up to 5 kilometers deep into the granite bedrock beneath the rolling prairie there.

A year and half ago, physicists working with the massive IceCube particle detector — a 3D array of 5160 light sensors buried kilometers deep in ice at the South Pole — spotted ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos from beyond our galaxy.

«Mesoscale eddies are on the scale of hundreds of kilometers across, yet the ocean is only four kilometers deep, which makes them essentially two - dimensional.

De Natale told ANSA that drilling the pilot well should start «within a few months,» the time needed to «reorganize with the company that won the contract,» and that a second well 3.5 kilometers deep should then follow.

The picture that emerged, the researchers report, includes a magma reservoir buried eight kilometers deep in the earth's crust that is at least 400 square kilometers wide.

Central peaks are formed when, in the aftermath of an impact, rocks from within the crust rebound upward, bringing layers to the surface that had been buried many kilometers deep.

Real - world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep - sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt — type circulation.

Earthquake researchers have now identified a 30 kilometers long and ten kilometers deep area along the North Anatolian fault zone just south of Istanbul that could be the starting point for a strong earthquake.

A salty ocean more than 100 kilometers deep might lurk beneath Pluto's icy heart, a new study suggests.

With light sensors sunk kilometers deep into the ice sheet, IceCube's detector is so huge that it could pick up traces of a million neutrinos from a Milky Way supernova.

Jupiter's massive Great Red Spot is at least 350 kilometers deep.

«It's no isolated frontier outpost, but something that clearly points to the Elbe River,» hundreds of kilometers deep in German territory.

«I never considered that weather events tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere significantly influence the decadal - to century - scale circulation kilometers deep into the ocean,» says climatologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research in Lexington, Massachusetts, who did not take part in this study.

Dione's ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.

The cool spot was «surprisingly shallow,» just 5000 kilometers deep, he adds, but the system's hot roots may extend 30 times deeper — beyond the reach of current studies.

But analyses of earthquake vibrations along Earth's surface have suggested that continents could run 200 or 300 kilometers deep, very gradually transitioning from cold, hard rock to hotter, gooier material.

In the words of one senior officer: «Imagine a box of enemy territory 200 kilometers wide and 200 kilometers deep; we should be able to detect every enemy target there, and to strike and kill any target we want.»

That's right — they are drilling down another 7,000 feet to reach an ore body at a depth of 3 miles — or more than 4.8 kilometers deep.

In December, Cyprus signed a provisional agreement with Israel, Greece and Italy for an aggressive 2,000 - kilometer (1,243 - mile), three - kilometer deep, $ 6 billion pipeline project to connect the four countries by 2025.

Their analysis, recently published in Geology, reveals a subglacial lake covering as much as 1,250 square kilometers (making it the second - largest subglacial lake in Antarctica by length after Lake Vostok) and a series of canyons that extend a kilometer deep and 1,100 kilometers across.

Then last summer at Hydrate Ridge they discovered something that they had never seen before: Fizzing chunks of hydrate, some the size of refrigerators, broke off the seafloor a kilometer deep and floated to the surface before disintegrating.

In the ocean, such bacteria are most likely to live about a kilometer deep, so ocean biologists have assumed that this region is the source of methylmercury in the ocean.

These archaea were first discovered in 3 - kilometer deep gold mines in South - Africa, and were later found to be cosmopolitan microbes that thrive in the subsurface biosphere.

These archaea were first discovered in 3 - kilometer deep gold mines in South - Africa,

It can warm a kilometer deep column of water by 0.75 C and you want to neglect this effect.

Not exact matches

It is more than 4 kilometers or approx. 2.5 miles below the surface, at the very bottom of the Mponeng deep level gold mine in South Africa.

Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

He estimates that on the fifth planet, TRAPPIST - 1f, liquid water extends down about 200 kilometers — about 20 times deeper than the Mariana Trench on Earth.

Chang» e 2's movement also involves capabilities for deep space tracking and communication out to 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, Belbruno pointed out, where L2 and another Lagrange point, L1, are located.

That's how deep - sea physiologist and ecologist Mackenzie Gerringer describes the pressure squeezing down on the deepest known living fish, some 8 kilometers down.

The panels did not require heavy racks that anchored deep in the roof for support but rather lay flat and spaced out to allow wind to flow through them, allowing them to withstand gusts up to 210 kilometers per hour as demonstrated during a test installation in Florida that survived a tropical storm.