Sentences with phrase «kilometers depth»

· Raphaël Grandin and colleagues at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris combined satellite radar data (InSAR) and broadband seismic data to determine that the main Pawnee seismic rupture occurred between 4 and 9 kilometers depth, well below the main sediment layer where wastewater is injected.

Green explained that at 300 - 700 kilometers depth, the pressure and temperature are so high that rocks in this deep interior of the planet can not break by the brittle processes seen on Earth's surface.

In the new work, Green and his team also investigated the Punchbowl Fault, an ancestral branch of the San Andreas Fault that has been exhumed by erosion from several kilometers depth, and found nanometric materials within the fault — as predicted by their model.

Earthquakes are labeled «shallow» if they occur at less than 50 kilometers depth.

The dominant picture of Earth's inner workings divided the planet at the 670 - kilometer depth, forming with the core a three - layer machine.

To put that in context, it can warm 1 kilometer depth of water by 0.75 C. With that much forcing from CO2, skepticism is like looking at a steady hotplate accounting for the water in a pot heating, and saying no it must be something else.

Not exact matches

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.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands.

Sinking slabs of ocean crust and rising plumes of hot rock in Earth's mantle are observed to behave differently below one megameter (1,000 kilometers) depth.

The experiments showed the team that, above a depth of 1,000 kilometers and below a depth of 1,700 km, bridgmanite contains nearly equal amounts of oxidized and reduced forms of iron.

Evidence suggests that the mantle behaves differently below 1 megameter (1,000 kilometers, or 621 miles) in depth, but so far seismologists have not been able to explain why this boundary exists.

The researchers deployed a robot to measure the depth of the 4 - kilometer - wide caldera.

The Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) uses radar to measure the lunar subsurface structures and tectonic features that are up to a few kilometers in depth.

Measuring earthquake waves that travel deep inside the planet, the scientists were able to retrieve images of what goes on inside the earth's mantle at a depth of about 3,000 kilometers.

Previously, only a tiny 15 - meter core has ever been extracted from beneath water of that depth, says Brodsky; most cores are taken from beneath 6 kilometers of water or less.

By combining older seafloor data and digital seismic data from earthquakes along with 4,500 kilometers (2,796 miles) of new seafloor depth measurements, or bathymetry, collected in 2010, Legg and his colleagues were able to take a closer look at the structure of two of the larger seafloor faults in the Borderland: the Santa Cruz - Catalina Ridge Fault and the Ferrelo Fault.

Juno's radiometer will probe to a depth of about 500 kilometers.

Two half - ton steel pressure vessels simulate the Jovian atmosphere from the frigid ammonia cloud tops down to a depth of 230 kilometers, where the temperature rises to 325 degrees Celsius and the pressure to a smothering 74 times Earth's atmosphere.

At roughly 12 kilometers long by 3 kilometers wide, with a depth of around 150 meters, it is but a puddle compared with the vast Lake Vostok.

One reason the Tuesday quake, which subjected some three million people to «severe shaking,» was so damaging is that it occurred at a relatively shallow depth, the fault having ruptured about 10 kilometers below the surface, Blanpied noted.

That pattern would indicate that the largest of the plates should be about as wide as the depth of the earth's mantle, or about 3,000 kilometers.

The distance off the coastline to get to this depth contour will vary from place to place but typically is two to 15 kilometers (1.2 to 9.3 miles), he adds.

The submarine is now lying on the seafloor at a depth of about 130 feet (40 meters), located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the north coast of Denmark.

By combining the two approaches, Patanè and his colleagues conclude that magma has been continuously injected from a depth of 6 to 15 kilometers below sea level into a series of shallower reservoirs.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the temblor was centered about 95 kilometers northwest of the port city of Iquique and originated at a depth of about 20 kilometers.

Using the seismic data, the researchers developed a three - dimensional velocity model of a magma anomaly to determine the size, depth and composition of the lava chamber, which is several kilometers in diameter and located at a depth of 8 - 11 km (5 — 6.8 miles).

Scientists want to explore every aspect of oceanography in the deep - water hadal regions — those anywhere below a depth of six kilometers.

But this rupture began 70 kilometers down, within the Cocos plate itself, and rose up before stopping at about 40 kilometers» depth, likely at the plate interface.

The lower mantle comprises 55 percent of the planet by volume and extends from 670 and 2900 kilometers in depth, as defined by the so - called transition zone (top) and the core - mantle boundary (below).

gradual change in temperature from the Earth's core (hot) to its crust (cool), about 25 ° Celsus per kilometer of depth (1 ° Fahrenheit per 70 feet of depth).

All of the oceans on Earth are estimated to have a volume of 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) and an average depth of 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters).

The outer layer of this hydrosphere is almost entirely frozen, but current models predict that there is an ocean up to 100 kilometers in depth underneath the ice.

When buying normal street tyres I'd normally look at the depth of the tread to know how many kilometers I can still do on them.

The steep profile of this territory, sometimes overhanging the sea, with growings and vineyards, terraced with dry stone walls, where rocks and barren areas covered with heather, broom and pines, in the depth of only three or four kilometers, highlights can be as high as 700 and 800 meters...

The undersea network will span 4.6 kilometers with a maximum depth of 30 meters.

Every year; some 25,000 hikers from around the world walk along the extraordinary 43 kilometers of this stone - paved road built by the Incas leading to the unassailable citadel of Machu Picchu located in the depth of the Cusco jungle.

That may be true on a total mass basis, however, the comparison of the water mass versus the mass of only the top crust, that part that is visible for example, down a few kilometers, say to the depth of the deepest part of the ocean — water would be a significantly higher proportion of the mass than you have stipulated.

The model shows how heat can be transported from the upper layer to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometers, in particular in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, notably to the south of Greenland.

All of the oceans on Earth are estimated to have a volume of 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) and an average depth of 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters).

Let's assume ice volume was lost to a depth of one kilometer (the depth of the «grounding line» where the ice - sheet meets the earth).

4 kilometers of average ocean depth and 1000s of years of ice.

Once it reaches a depth of a kilometer or so, it can decompose to CO2 again but the water will be isolated from the atmosphere for decades, maybe centuries.

That means that well over half of the energy in the visible light that makes it through the partially reflective surface of the sun is absorbed by the water within the first 100 meters, photosynthesis is only possible in the top 200 meters (the Epipelagic zone) and virtually none of the energy penetrates past a kilometer in depth.

Perhaps they don't want to believe in invisible fairies that eat the blue photons that make it through the surface of water before they get down to a kilometer of depth, because God knows there ain't no blue photons left to speak of by the time you get down that far.

Our oceans cover more than 72 % of the Earth's surface at an average depth of more the 4 kilometers.

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

The long body of Lake Turkana drops down along the Rift Valley from the Ethiopian border, extending 249 kilometers from north to south and 44 km at its widest point with a depth of 30 meters.

They have an instrument package that yo - yos down to a depth of two kilometers, and then yo - yos back up.